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What did you say?
I want to talk a little bit about communication. One thing I have noticed being a veterinarian in a mixed animal practice is that we don’t talk to all our clients in the same way. We talk about the...
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Yearly physical exam
Just like you, our beef cows go to the doctor every year. It just so happens that our veterinarians are my husband, my father-in-law, and me. So our cows get “vet-checked” every day when we feed them....
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A little drinking water
Cattle need way more water than you might think. A lactating cow in the middle of the summer can drink around 18 gallons of water a day. A heifer who is not pregnant will drink around 10 gallons of...
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Shelter from the sun
Did you know that dogs and cats can only sweat from their nose and the bottoms of their feet? Cows can’t sweat at all, so we need to be sure to give them extra protection from the sun. Especially our...
View ArticleA veterinarian’s reaction to HSUS’s new undercover video
Chances are you’ve seen it, or at least heard about it. Yesterday, the Humane Society of the United States released a new undercover video from a pig farm in Wyoming. I’ve watched it a few times, and...
View ArticleReport on undercover video from the Animal Care Review Panel
On Tuesday, the Humane Society of the United States released an undercover video from a pig farm in Wyoming. On Wednesday, I gave you my thoughts on some of the terrible things I saw in that video. The...
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What is a CAFO?
I’ve heard this question a few times. It’s a strange acronym. People know that it has something to do with farms and animals, but that’s really all the detail they know. CAFOs pop up in the news a lot,...
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How are CAFOs regulated?
Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are pretty strictly regulated. They are regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and by state agencies. Here in Indiana, they are regulated by...
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Farm animal identification
Although most farmers don’t name every animal they have, knowing which animal is which is still very important. Farmers use ear tags like these to identify individual animals in a herd where one animal...
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How do farmers work with veterinarians?
Although veterinarians may not be involved in the day-to-day activities on a livestock farm, they are still a very important of the team. Veterinarians are used more often on some types of farms than...
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