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Practicing precision animal health
Dec 05, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Practicing precision animal health
Ross Kiehne, DVM, practices what he calls “precision animal health.” “I’m only going to provide the vaccine or antibiotic that’s right for the pig at that time in its life to make it as...Swine vet: Factory-farm concept ‘couldn’t be further from the truth’
May 19, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Swine vet: Factory-farm concept ‘couldn’t be further from the truth’
Today the term factory farm is used very widely, and most people think machines are making pigs, notes Seth Krantz, DVM, company veterinarian for Tosh Farms.Losing family swine herd to disease turned this farmhand into a veterinarian
May 19, 2017Jennifer GrullonComments Off on Losing family swine herd to disease turned this farmhand into a veterinarian
As a child, when the swine disease pseudorabies (Aujeszky’s disease) forced his father to sell all the family’s pigs and start over, Andrew Bents got the calling to become a swine veterinarian.