animal science

And I came to College Station.

I decided to get a degree in animal science.

So that is what my undergrad degree is in.

And then my master's is in agriculture.

Okay, but wait a second.

What do you do with that? What do you want to do?

What do you do with animal science and agriculture? Fantastic question.

So originally I wanted to go to vet school.

Hamish is studying at Lincoln University.

He is doing a agricultural science degree with a major in animal science.

Hamish joins the conversation now.

Welcome to the show, Hamish.

She can't remember a time when she didn't want to be a veterinarian.

She earned her BS in animal science from Texas A&M University in 2008, her DVM from Ross University in 2012.

After graduation, she went into equine practice in Ocala, Florida, and then into small animal practice in South Florida before returning to Texas to work first on a white-tailed deer ranch, and then in small animal general and emergency practice before founding her own practice, Back in Motion Veterinary Services, in 2017.

She was certified in acupuncture by Chi University soon after her first equine position, but it wasn't until returning to Texas that she attended the Animal Chiropractic Education Source and was certified in animal chiropractic by the AVCA.

I loved it.

It was exactly what I needed at that time in my life.

Very supportive environment and great, you know, just animal science program there.

Did that animal science program, do you think it got you ready for vet school?

But this, I mean shaking, shaking those plants and getting a few green small bolls off of it, and I mean, it's-

Well over at Animal Science and that's some-

that's what I'm thinking

... good cotton too.

So then I went back home.

finished my degree in animal science.

And then I stayed in touch with Alfredo the next year.

He hit me again and said, do you think any more about it? And at the time, yeah, things in Argentina were not great economically.

A Greenville, South Carolina native, Lila was bitten by the horse bug at age six on the back of a gentle Tennessee Walker named Sunny, and she never looked back.

She earned her BS in animal science from Clemson University in 2016, and then spent that year's show season working for a hunter-jumper veterinarian, traveling circuits to Chicago, Traverse City, and Tryon.

At Balsam Mountain, Lila oversees a growing equestrian program that includes the care of a dozen horses, boarding lessons, guided trail rides across more than 40 acres of mountain trails, and a full calendar of horse-related community events.

She's known for her passion, her warm sense of humor, and her ever-present barn dog and unofficial mascot, Deuce.

Yes, I'm happy to tell a little bit about myself.

I am Kevin Liu, and I was born in the southwest of China, and I got a bachelor's degree and a master's degree, both in animal science and nutrition in at a university called the Sichuan Agriculture University.

And then I went to Europe and then studied for PhD in the Netherlands at the University of Wageningen University.

And the PhD degree was specialized in animal nutrition.

And this is a great article we're going to discuss.

It's in Applied Animal Science 2025.

The title is An Invited Review, Vitamin A in Beef-Cow-Calf Systems, Biological Relevance, Revisiting of Requirements, and Unresolved Questions, which I really like that title.

It covers everything we want to talk about.

Yep, absolutely.

And I think thanks for bringing this up and a great topic to discuss.

As I mentioned, this article was in Applied Animal Science, lead author Eekhoff, E-E-K-H-O-F-F.

So if you want to look that up and learn more about it, or if you have a topic you'd like us to discuss, you can certainly send us an email at bci at ksu.edu.