Todd Conner:
CLASS OF 1987
James River High SchoolClass of 1987
Buchanan, VA
Todd's Story
Life
After graduating JRHS, I went to VWCC and received my associates in Science and took classes to go to veterinary school. I then went to VA Tech and finished my bachelors in Animal Science in December 1992. I did not get into a veterinary school in the US. I did get accepted to a veterinary school that was located in the Carribbean. I lived down there mostly for 2 years finishing my book work. Then, I did my senior clinical rotations at Oklahoma State University. I met my wife, Kristi, while I was attending OK state.
My first job was in New York state at a mixed animal practice, I was there for 18 months.
Then, Kristi and I got married in Sept 1998 in OK.
We then took jobs at the same practice in western Pennsylvania. It was a mixed practice also. At both of these practices I was doing predominantly food animal mostly dairy work.
In 2000, I took a position in a large dairy herd internship at Michigan State University in conjunction with a family owned corporate dairy about 40 miles North of the MSU vet school. I was there 1 year and completed the i...Expand for more
nternship. My wife stayed in PA while I was in Michigan.
In Sept 2001, we moved back to her home town of Guymon, OK and bought a small animal practice. Guymon is located in the Panhandle of OK. If you look at a map, it is the thin strip of land between Kansas and Texas. It is called "No mans land" and it is that. We are 2 hours northeast of Amarillo, TX.
I worked with a dairy consultation practice out of Kansas in 01-03. We traveled around to Wisconsin and various areas looking at dairies and doing consultation work.
We had our only child in July 2002, Elizabeth Ann.
In summer of 04, I got to present some research that I had done at an international cattle veterinary conference in Quebec Canada. That was pretty exciting.
In 05, I started working for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) as a public health veterinarian. My duty station is the hog slaughter plant here in Guymon. I evaluate the hogs before slaughter, humane handling, evaluate carcasses and deal with plant issues. I see 8,000-10,000 hogs a day.
That is the short of it.
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