Nebraska Day 1- August 27, 2007

Last night 20 third year veterinary students arrived at the Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center Nebraska to start our Meat Animal Rotation. Despite being surrounded by nothing but cornfields Nebraska isn't that bad. Today started out with an orientation session followed by a tour of the facilities. My group (Me, Vanessa, Vivian, and Gael) were the first group to be "on call." Right after we got back from the tour we got a call and so headed out to the barns. We examined and took samples from a two and a half year old cow that had calved a few days ago and presented with a pitting edema on her caudal abdomen that has grown larger then what it was yesterday. We ran a urinalysis and a California Mastitis Test which confirmed what we already suspected......mastitis. Afterwards we went to necropsy rounds. I think that I learned more about pathophysiology in the 45 minutes of rounds then I have in the past 2 years of veterinary school. After rounds we made the 20 mile drive to Walmart to pick up food for the next 2 weeks.
The picture is of Me, Vanessa, Gael, and Vivian with our samples that we collected from our patient.