Bovine dystocia

Question 1

What are the “3 P’s” of parturtion?

Answer 1

Presentation
Position
Posture

Question 2

What happens in stage 1 of labor?

Answer 2

Myometrial contractions

Question 3

What happens in stage 2 of labor?

Answer 3

Calf comes out of vagina

Question 4

What happens in stage 3 of labor?

Answer 4

Expulsion of fetal membranes

Question 5

What kind of idodine scrub do we use to clean cow for dystocia?

Answer 5

DILUTE!

Question 6

What may excessive movement of extremities or the tounge indicate in a calf who’s stuck?

Answer 6

Hypoxia

Question 7

What are some signs a calf is alive in a dystocia case?

Answer 7

Positive response to pressure of the pedal, palpebral, eye, mouth and anus by movement reflex

Question 8

What causes amniotic fluid to turn green but still smell normal? What does this indicate?

Answer 8

Meconium=stressed calf

Question 9

What causes amniotic fluid to turn green and start to have a fetid odor?

Answer 9

Dead calf

Question 10

When feeling the calves legs and you feel the parts of the legs bending in the same direction you know you have the ____ legs.

Answer 10

Front: carpus & fetlock

If they were bending in different directions you would have the hind legs: tarsus & fetlock

Question 11

Process by which the fetus is restored to deliverable fashion

Answer 11

Mutation

Question 12

Pushing the fetus out of maternal pelvis into the uterine cavity to enable correction of abnormality

Answer 12

Repulsion

Question 13

Turing the fetus on it’s longitudinal axis

Answer 13

Rotation

Question 14

Turning the fetus on it’s transverse axis into a cranial or caudal presenation

Answer 14

Version

rare presentation in cattle

Question 15

When describing malpresentation due to a leg being stuck you should be sure to say what?

Answer 15

Which joint the leg is bent at

Question 16

Once a calf is put in a good position you should ____ or _____ down when the cow ______

Answer 16

Once a calf is put in a good position you should PULL or PUSH down when the cow PUSHES

Question 17

Describe proper chain placement on a calf’s legs when trying to pull it out?

Answer 17

Above & below fetlock joint with the connecting chain on the top of the leg

Question 18

When pulling a calf out with chains placing traction on both forelimbs simultaneously often results in _______.

Answer 18

Shoulder lock

*rock back when pulling

Question 19

What is the widest part of a fetus?

Answer 19

Hips