Large animal reproductive terms
Birthing in bovines.
What is calving?
Diarrhea in large animal species.
What is scours?
Common bacterium of Tetanus.
What is clostridium tetani?
First thing to control when working with small ruminants.
What is the head?
Boer patient with T=103.5F, P=80, R=20, ruminations 2/minute.
What are normal vital signs?
Castrated male equine of any age.
What is a gelding?
Medical term for GI noises ausculted as part of your large animal PE, sound like a growing or rumbling sound.
What are borborygmi?
Vector of equine encephalomyelitis.
What is the mosquito?
Distraction restraint procedure used in bovine (similar concept to twitch in horse)
What is tail jack?
Most births in small ruminants occur in this position.
What is anterior or "head diving" position?
Mature female bovine.
What is a cow?
Medical term for burping (discussed with bovines).
What are eructations?
Equine viral disease, highly contagious with clinical signs of Nasal and ocular discharge, fever, lymphadenopathy, lethargy.
What is equine Influenza?
A "board" is often used to control these animals.
What are pigs/swine?
Clydesdale with T=100.1F, P=70, R=16
What is tachycardia?
Length of gestation in equines.
What is 330 days?
An inadequate quality or amount of colostrum in the foal can result in what?
What is failure of passive transfer?
The trivalent vaccine for Equine Encephalomyelitis protects against which 3 strains of the disease?
What are Eastern, Western, and Venezuelan Encephalomyelitis?
Average estrus cycle frequency of sheep.
What is 17 days?
Adult sheep/goats should be fed this mineral free choice for general thriftiness (adults ingest about 10g/day).
What is salt?
Neonate bovine female less than 1 year of age.
What is a heifer calf?
Exaggerated, jerky responses to visual, auditory, and tactile stimuli in the foal
What is bobbing?
Due to risk of abortion, pregnant mares should be vaccinated for Equine Herpesvirus at these months of pregnancy.
What are months 5, 7, and 9?
Limit movement, minimize length of capture time and restraint in pigs to help prevent this.
What is porcine stress syndrome?
Diseases protected against in core vaccination "CD-T" in small ruminants.
What are Clostridium perfringens types C and D (bloody scours and pulpy kidney disease) and Clostridium tetani (tetanus)?