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Help! My cow has refused to go for long call

A dairy cow during a recent ASK Show. Farmers need to be observant to notice when an animal has not had a long call for days. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/STANDARD]

It was a dry December some years ago when I had just left the vet school and was steaming with the zest of a young vet. I came across a case that has ever since stuck in my mind like the memory of a maiden kiss.

Word had gone round Lung’anyiro village that I had graduated, joining the league of paltry vets in Matungu constituency.

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