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Posts published in “2008 August”

Calls for the country vet

Column by Hal Walter

Agriculture – August 2008 – Colorado Central Magazine

THE BULL CALVES went through the squeeze chute one by one, and the vet took a scalpel to their nuts. When each was released into the pen, it walked away from the site of its emasculation and set about eating grass.

“How bad do you think that hurts?” I asked Kit Ryff, the traveling veterinarian from Salida.