D. E. Larsen, DVM Hardware disease results from the indiscriminate eating habits of the cow. It was frequently seen when hay was baled with wire. Any stray sharp metal, like a nail, could be involved. The hardware will fall into the reticulum, considered the second stomach. The cow’s heart lies just on the other sideContinue reading “Rosebud’s Wire, from the Archives”
Category Archives: Veterinary Medicine
Benefits of Experience, from the Archives
D. E. Larsen, DVM The phone jarred me awake. It was going to be another late night, and I thought calving season was over. I glanced at the clock as I picked up the receiver, 1:30. “Doc, this is Jack. I have a llama who gave birth tonight,” Jack said in an excited voice. “TheyContinue reading “Benefits of Experience, from the Archives”
A Morning Call, from the Archives
A Morning Call D. E. Larsen, DVM I woke with a jolt and glanced at the clock. It read five in the morning. “Damn, did I talk with Larry and then go back to sleep,” I said aloud. Larry Solar had a dairy out of Buckley, Washington. Unfortunately, he had received some terrible marketing fromContinue reading “A Morning Call, from the Archives”
Memoirs of a Country Vet 