D. E. Larsen, DVM I stopped at the mailbox and double-checked the box’s address against my call slip. This was the right place, but it really didn’t look like anybody was home, and it didn’t look like a place that had room for a cow. I pulled into the drive and waited a moment, hopingContinue reading “The Old Man”
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Splints for Scruffy
D. E. Larsen, DVM Hugh and I were walking out to the small pig pen beside their small barn. The pen held a large sow with a litter of eleven piglets about five weeks old. The reason I was here was because now there were only ten piglets. One had been found dead this morning.Continue reading “Splints for Scruffy “
What are the Odds, From the Archives
D. E. Larsen, DVM The young heifer strained hard as I tried to explore the four feet presented at her vulva. I slid my arm into the vagina alongside the legs. I could determine that these were two front legs and two hind legs, but were they from two different calves? “She has been strainingContinue reading “What are the Odds, From the Archives”
Memoirs of a Country Vet 