Managing Livestock and Poultry

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Managing Livestock and Poultry

• Preventive Maintenance of Beef, Swine and Poultry

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Objective

• Discuss the use of vaccinations and immunization
  in the animal science industry

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Vaccination and Immunization

• Sanitation and disease control
• Most effective preventative method
• Sanitation
• Using clean equipment
• Preventing contamination

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Vaccination and Immunization

• Vaccinations
• Develop an immunity or resistance
• New animals should be vaccinated on arrival
• isolate sick animals
• Treatment of Poultry
• Reduce stress
• Medicated water
• Sprays or dust

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Objective

• Discuss surgical procedures used in the animal
  science industry
• Perform preventive maintenance procedures on
  beef, swine, and poultry.

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Castration

• Removing testicles of male animals or stopping
  the flow of semen
• Early age
• Prevent breeding
• Perform on young animals for best results
• Methods
• Knife-
• Burdizzo- crushes the cord (bloodless)
• Elastrator- cuts blood supply (bloodless)

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Dehorning

• Prevent injury to cattle, people and facilities
• Perform when the animal is young
• Reduces shock and is easier to do
• Older animals tend to bleed more
• Fall is the best weather for dehorning

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Dehorning

• Methods
• Chemical- liquid or pastes
• Mechanical
• Spoons, gouges or tubes
• Barns type
• Irons
• Saws

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Dehorning
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Dehorning
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Points to Remember

• Prevention is more effective than treatment
• Vaccination should be done as early as possible
• Castration and Dehorning should be done early to
  reduce stress and shock

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Other Preventive Maintenance Procedures

• Needle teeth clipping
• Protects sows teats
• Fumigating eggs with formaldehyde
• Prevents the spread of disease in eggs
• Iodine
• Newborn animal navels