Dr. Laura Johnston was raised on a beef farm in Pennsylvania where her family still raises Herefords as well as a few pigs, goats, and chickens. She moved to Arizona after her undergraduate studies to attend Midwestern University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. After earning her veterinary degree, Dr. Johnston completed a year-long internship at Countryside Large Animal Veterinary Services in Greeley, CO. Her primary interest is in equine and bovine medicine, and she also enjoys seeing the occasional goat, sheep, or show pig. She has experience in a variety of livestock medicine including dystocia management and c-sections, herd health management, reproduction (breeding soundness, pregnancy diagnosis, etc.), lameness, emergency medicine, and more. In her spare time, Dr. Laura enjoys hiking with her dog, riding her horse, weight lifting, and enjoying the great outdoors in any way possible [citation].
Dr. Laura Johnston has experience in cow-calf, feedlot, stocker/backgrounding, and small ruminant medicine. No herd is too large or small; our goal is to tailor our services to the individual needs of your operation. She has expertise in breeding soundness examination, frozen semen evaluation, lameness treatment, hoof trimming, surgical procedures, breeding injury repair, breeding management consultation, steer and heifer services, reproductive ultrasound, estrus synchronization, pregnancy diagnosis via ultrasound or palpation, dystocia and C-section, neonatal medicine, and more [citation].