Livestock Mid Term

Question 1

What is the purpose of vaccinating livestock?

Answer 1

Maximizes health success of the flock

Question 2

What are three injections we administer to livestock?

Answer 2

Triangle 10
20
SQ or IM in the neck

CD&T
20
Neck muscle

Iron
20
Neck muscle

Question 3

administering a SQ injection

Answer 3

Pull back the syringe to see if there’s blood in the syringe that means you are in the vein if it suctions you are in the muscle

Question 4

administering an IM injection

Answer 4

Go perpendicular pull back the syringe to see if there’s blood in the syringe that means you are in the vein if it suctions you are in the muscle

Question 5

administering an IV injection

Answer 5

Pull back and get blood that means you are in the vein

Question 6

administering a SQ injection to a sheep - what do I need to consider?

Answer 6

Their wool

Question 7

administering an IM injection in a beef steer - what do I need to consider

Answer 7

The cut of meet

Question 8

two scenarios in which a livestock animal would need a CD&T vaccine

Answer 8

Castration
Dehorning

Question 9

Why do piglets require iron injections

Answer 9

They are born with very little iron and their mom do not produce iron in their milk no iron means there muscles will dead they will become very weak and die the muscle have no blood and are small thin and light in color

Question 10

advantages to IV injections, as opposed to orally administered

Answer 10

Goes straight into the bloodstream

Question 11

What compound administration discussed can be used to both prevent AND treat a disease common to dairy cattle? What is the disease?

Answer 11

Intramammary for mastitis

Question 12

how to use a balling gun

Answer 12

Measure the balling gun from her mouth to the back of her jaw to know how far to put the balling gun in their throat, hold the bottom of her mouth with your fingers in the side of her mouth so it opens tilt her head up keep the balling gun sticking up so the meds do not fall out next stick the balling gun in her mouth and pass her tongue release the meds and keep her head up for little bit to make sure the meds go down.

Question 13

collect blood from a sheep. Where do you collect it from, and how would I need to prep the area in order to collect it

Answer 13

Jugular vein - shave the area to see the vein

Question 14

I’m giving a dairy cow IV medication using a 12cc syringe. Where would you suggest I make my first attempt at entering the vein

Answer 14

Closer to the head because it could drip down if you go lower

Question 15

three techniques you could consider if collecting urine

Answer 15

Free catch
Stroking the eschen
Catheterization

Question 16

Explain how to disbud or dehorn a calf.

Answer 16

1. CDT (prevent tetanus)
2. CDT (3 week after the day of dehorning)

Day of dehorning
Meloxicam (baling gun) AM/PM- time of dehorning (pain management)
Lidocaine (Numbing) 5-10 minutes before dehorning
SQ injection before eyes and horn/bud (temple)

Hot iron to dehorn
1. Apply over/around horn
2. Circular motion
3. Until dark copper ring