Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
Faribault Daily News
Area farmers teaching themselves vet skills amid livestock-vet shortage
By By COLTON KEMP,
1 day ago
It’s been about a month since area veterinarians officially stopped treating livestock, leaving farmers left to their own devices as it pertains to the health care of their animals.
From left, Heidi Eger and Gale Donkers look through their microscope while Kifah Abdi is helped by Kari Ripley-Boysen, next to Jessica Page Saturday morning at Burning Daylight Draft Farm. The group is teaching themselves basic veterinary care, due to a shortage in vets that treat livestock. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com) Vet tech Kari Ripley-Boysen pour the sodium-nitrate solution used to make parasite eggs float to the top and attach to a microscope slide, during the Pooper Scooper 101 workshop Saturday morning at Burning Daylight Draft Farm. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com) Veterinary technician Kari Ripley-Boysen explains the best way to gather a manure sample Saturday morning during the first workshop put on by the Wifery Livestock Skills Consortium. The workshop, Pooper Scooper 101, explained how to perform an at-home fecal-float test, which can help identify parasites in livestock. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com) Using these photos and illustrations, area farmers performed their own fecal-float tests on their livestock's manure Saturday morning, during a workshop meant to help teach basic veterinary skills due to a shortage of veterinarians in the area and around the country. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com) In the top-left part of the photo taken through a microscope sits a gray oval, which vet tech Kari Ripley-Boysen identified during a workshop as the egg of a strongylid, a parasite also known as a threadworm. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com) Vet tech Kari Ripley-Boysen demonstrates how to safely prepare the slide for microscopic evaluation Saturday morning. (Colton Kemp/southernminn.com)
Get updates delivered to you daily. Free and customizable.
Welcome to NewsBreak, an open platform where diverse perspectives converge. Most of our content comes from established publications and journalists, as well as from our extensive network of tens of thousands of creators who contribute to our platform. We empower individuals to share insightful viewpoints through short posts and comments. It’s essential to note our commitment to transparency: our Terms of Use acknowledge that our services may not always be error-free, and our Community Standards emphasize our discretion in enforcing policies. We strive to foster a dynamic environment for free expression and robust discourse through safety guardrails of human and AI moderation. Join us in shaping the news narrative together.
Most Popular
Comments / 0