Horse unit adds frozen embryo transfer abilities

Two mothers with claim to one filly are together with Mississippi State University representatives Russ Farrar (from left), Dr. Kevin Walters and Greg Fulgham. Top Card, the filly’s biological mother is a quarter horse and is on the left. Her surrogate mother, Avonlea, is a Tennessee walking horse and is on the right. (Photo by Tom Thompson)

By Linda Breazeale
MSU Ag Communications

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Her future registered name may be different, but around the horse unit at Mississippi State University, everyone calls her Popsicle.

Born in September, Popsicle is the result of MSU’s first successful frozen embryo transfer in horses. University veterinarians have performed embryo transfers in recent years,...

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Homeward Bound relocates Mississippi pets

By Bonnie Coblentz

MSU Ag Communications

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Supply and demand forces are saving pet lives in Mississippi and making puppies and kittens available to owners in the Northeast.

Krista Gazzola, a second-year veterinary student at Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, has a soft place in her heart for young strays.

“When I got to Starkville last fall, I started picking up puppies and young adult dogs off the side of the road and trying to find them homes,” Gazzola said. “I thought to myself, ‘If I don’t figure out a way to find more homes, then I’m going to have about 80 million dogs by the time I get out of vet school.’”

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Advance in CVM imaging

Sandy Brown, CVM Technical Supervisor, and Ryan Butler, CVM 2007 graduate, view an image during clinical scanning.

Premier partnership advances CVM’s imaging capabilities

By Patti Drapala
MSU Ag Communications

MISSISSIPPI STATE -- As people become accustomed to their physicians employing sophisticated medical equipment, diagnostic equipment, and therapies for treatment of diseases and physical problems, they expect veterinarians to offer their family pets similar innovations in health care.

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