BQA - Beef Quality Assurance Flashcards
What does BQA stand for?
Beef Quality Assurance
How often must you renew your BQA training?
Every 3 years
What are the components of the BQA program?
- Level 1 - training and pass quiz
- Level 2 - chute side training and demonstrate proper SQ injeciton
Recertification every 3 years
Who is our ultimate boss and why we do BQA?
The consumer
What are some of the major concerns in beef cattle production?
Animal welfare, antibiotics, hormones and environment
What are some things that help these animals become a good eating experience for consumers?
Using proper injection sites
Adhering to withdrawal
Timely market cull cows and bulls
What is a key question the producer should be asking himself every time he sends a cow to market?
Would they eat it themselves?
How are cattle’s behaviors shaped?
Innate instincts, experiences that developed conditioned learning and sensory perceptions
What are some benefits of low stress handling?
Better response to vaccines, better performance, decreased disease, decreased weaning stress, decreased transportation stress, more safe for handler, more safe for livestock better to ID sick
Cattle want to ___ you?
See
Want to see you, move around you, be in group, return to last safe location, avoid fear
What can you use to move cattle?
Flight zone
What should we work on establishing with every client?
VCPR (see once a year at least) - question is how to track this (We are responsible, need to have enough info and give enough to client, be available if something need, oversight and compliance, need records
All dairy’s have what as part of their herd health program?
VCPR
What is biosecurity?
Minimize introduction of organism and decrease spread
What does ELUD stand for?
Extra label drug use
-written protocol for this
What is the most BQA friendly route of injection?
SQ
Where should you not give an injection because it is a ligament and has no blood or dendritic cells to take it where it needs to go?
Nuchal Ligament
When administering GNRH which size and length needle do you need?
1.5 inch
Why is a dart gun not BQA?
ELDU always - don’t know where its being injected
Flunixin Banamine should always be administered via what route?
IV
When should you castrate and dehorn?
As early as possible
Why are records important?
If you don’t measure you cant manage it
How long do you need to keep records for an animal?
At least 2 years or how ever long the withdrawal is
What are some things you can do to avoid residues?
ID all animals treated, record all treatment, follow label, 10cc per site only, separate injecitons by 4 inch, avoid ELDU, dont mix drug in same syringe, check records before marketing
