Veterinary: The one we often forget

On one of the few really warm, sunny days last summer, I headed down river to see a weanling that was “down”.

As we pulled into the field there were about 30 good weanlings contentedly grazing away but it was not hard to pick out my patient.

A Simmental-cross suckler of about two hundred and thirty Kg, he looked a great animal but he did not move as we approached him.