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Helping Horses: NC State Hosts Training on Handling, Assessing Animals in Potential Danger

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A black and white cow wearing a teal electronic monitor stares at a camera behind a gate.

Oct 21, 2025

Cow Collar Clues: Electronic Monitoring Helps Keep NC State Dairy Herd Hardy

In the year that NC State’s new dairy facility has been cooling cows, providing state-of-the-art milking technology and giving veterinary students experience in best industry practices, the collars around the cows’ necks have been communicating with computers. When dairy manager Mike Veach gets the resulting report each morning, he knows Cow 708 has been lying…
Cows at the new dairy barn on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine Campus.

Aug 20, 2024

State-of-the-Art Dairy Barn a Cool Addition to NC State Veterinary Campus

Inside the new dairy barn on the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine campus, creature comforts include 15 industrial-size fans that knock 20 degrees off the suffocating summer heat and sprinklers that sporadically mist the milk makers as they munch alfalfa. The cows clearly are content with their new digs, and Dr. Allison West, clinical…
Maya Hurley with Capital City Animal Control, a division of the Raleigh Police Department, listens to Dr. Allison West explain what concerning signs to look for in a horse.

Aug 1, 2023

Helping Horses: NC State Hosts Training on Handling, Assessing Animals in Potential Danger

The all-day event, organized by the Humane Society of the United States with the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine and the Raleigh Police Department as partners, drew more than 30 officers from across North Carolina.