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3D Printing Helps Amish-owned Horse Recover Post-tracheotomy

MU equine veterinarian works with engineering students to custom-print device, assist horse with breathing issue. When Ronnie, a 2,000-pound draft horse owned by an Amish family in Clark, Missouri, started having trouble breathing, he was taken to the University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine. There, equine veterinarian Joanne Kramer surgically created a hole in

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MU Veterinary Team Beats Odds to Save Horse’s Vision

For Angel, a 4-year-old Missouri Fox Trotter, the options appeared limited. At the urging of a friend who operates the ranch where the young horse is boarded, Angel’s owner, Laurie McCarthy of Bentonville, Ark., took her horse to a local veterinarian for what she suspected was a blood clot in Angel’s eye. The veterinarian’s diagnosis