Animal Health & Welfare

Question 1

What are ways to reduce animal stress?

Answer 1

1. Feeding Systems
2. Working Systems
3. Living Environments
4. Health enhancements (vaccinations)

Question 2

Do animals work efficiently under undesirable conditions?

Answer 2

no

Question 3

Necropsy

Answer 3

Cause of death

Question 4

Disease

Answer 4

State other than complete wellness

Question 5

What can cause diseases?

Answer 5

Virus, Bacteria, Internal, External Parasites, Broken Bones, Biochemical Problems

Question 6

Clinical Signs

Answer 6

Outward appearance or symptom that is not normal

Question 7

Pathology

Answer 7

Study of essential nature of diseases

Question 8

Etiology

Answer 8

Cause of disease or the study of the cause of disease

Question 9

Cortisol

Answer 9

Decrease Stress

Question 10

What three factors enhance animals resistance to environmental or man made pathogens?

Answer 10

1. Vaccinations
2. Facilities
3. Genetics

Question 11

HYPP (Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis)

Answer 11

Muscles get stiff

Question 12

Immune System

Answer 12

Bodies ability to prevent sickness (skin, mucous membranes, linking of GI tract, antibody production)

Question 13

Antibodies

Answer 13

Protein molecules able to recognize harmful organisms and prevent them from harming the body.

Question 14

Passive Immunity

Answer 14

Passed from mother to offspring during gestation or from colostrum. (short term protection from organisms that the dam was exposed to)

Question 15

Active Immunity

Answer 15

Antibodies are produced by the animal from exposure to an organism or vaccination

Question 16

Clostridal Organism

Answer 16

C&D & tetanus (anaerobic condition)

Question 17

Polioencephalomalacia

Answer 17

In ruminants (thiamin deficiency)

Question 18

What factors help prevention?

Answer 18

Management, Nutrition, Genetics, Isolation/Quarantine, Animal Identification, Identify Sick Animals

Question 19

Nutrition

Answer 19

Balanced Rations (2:1)

Question 20

What are the water requirements?

Answer 20

Fresh, clean (no contaminants)

Question 21

Reduce metabolic problems

Answer 21

Milk fever, urinary calculi, ketosis, grass tetany, nitrate poisonings, colic, founder

Question 22

Genetics

Answer 22

Eliminate animals with problems

Question 23

Cattle

Answer 23

Curly Calf Syndrome (Angus)

Question 24

Swine

Answer 24

P.S.S. Porcine Stress Syndrome

Question 25

Horses

Answer 25

Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis Disease (HyPP)
Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (PSSM)

Question 26

Animal Identification

Answer 26

(traceability & good record keeping)
*ear tag
*microchip
*tattoo

Question 27

Body Temperature

Answer 27

Cattle 101.5
Sheep/Goat 102
Pig 102
Dog 102
Cat 101.5
Horse 100

Question 28

Caseous Lymphadenitis (CL)

Answer 28

Sheep and Goats (tetanus)

Question 29

Zoonotic Disease

Answer 29

Can be passed between animals and humans (rabies, ringworm, q-fever, brucellosis, tuberculosis, toxoplasmosis)

Question 30

Types of prevention

Answer 30

*Pasteurization of milk, eggs, etc
* Inspection of meat products
*Proper sanitation procedures
* vaccinations
*elimination of infected animals

Question 31

Diseases of economic impacts

Answer 31

Mad cow disease, avian flu, bird flu, foot and mouth disease, equine infectious anemia

Question 32

What does USDA inspection do?

Answer 32

(APHIS) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
*protects and promotes U.S. agriculture
* trace back program to quickly identify and trace sick animals