Two new graduates in the vet department: Ariel Torrelio and Silvia Yujra.
Silvia looked at the digestion of plants in goats -- by putting mesh bags of forages in a hole in their stomachs! The process, called fistulation, required a simple surgery, and does not harm the animal. The results showed that the goats digested supplemental legume forages more readily, and that grass forages provided the roughage that they needed.
Ariel looked at parasites in sheep, and found a variety of parasites that were easily treated with anti-parasite medicine; but that animals on common grazing pasture are readily re-infected, requiring that all herders deparasitize their animals at the same time.
Both students have been at the college for many years, and we are glad to see these "veterans" reach their dream.
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