What the textbooks don’t tell you about…Using the vet efficiently (part one)

I wrote about this six years ago. So why the need to look at things again? This column is based on what the textbooks don’t tell you, or don’t cover sufficiently, at least in my opinion. The two best veterinary textbooks on pigs, written by pig specialist vets, of course, cover the veterinary subject brilliantly, but strangely neither of them tell you how to use vets effectively. So here are some thoughts on the present situation, which has moved on somewhat from that of six years b