Instruments - Food Animal

* permanent identifying marks in the ears of pigs, goats, and sheep

ear notcher

* apply ear tags for cattle, sheep, and goats

identification-tag applicator

* permanently by placing numbers or letters inside the ear, lip, or thigh

tattoo outfit: manual

* places numbers, letters, or designs on the animal’s shoulder or hip

hot-iron branding irons

* permanently places numbers, letters, or designs on the shoulder or hip

electric branding irons

* permanently places numbers, letters or designs on the shoulder or hip

freeze branding irons

* temporary mark

marking paint

* control’s the head and leads

rope halter

* moves livestock

cattle prods

secures cow or bull

squeeze chute

* control head

nose lead

* control head of bull by applying pressure to nasal septum

bull ring

* captures animal by neck or feet

lariat with quick-release honda

* assist cow to stand, especially after post parturient paresis, milk fever, generalized weakness, obturator paralysis caused by fractures

hip lift

* gets cow back on its feet after surgery, injury, or illness

cow sling

* release from the rumen gasses that cause bloating

trocar and cannula

* collect and hold metal that’s been ingested; can cause “hardware disease” if allowed to pass through rumen

magents

* keep weaned calves from nursing

calf weaners

* remove horn buds or small horns

horn gouge

* remove small horns from calves, sheep, and goats

barnes dehorner

* remove medium-sized to large horns

keystone dehorner: guillotine

* remove large horns

wire saw with handles: gigli wire

* remove horns by killing cells that produce horns or to cauterize after removal

electric dehorner

* perform a bloodless castration in large animal

burdizzo emasculatome

* perform a bloodless castration or tail dock on large animal

elastrator

* perform castration on a large animal

white emasculator

* cut the scrotal sac for testicle exposure

newberry castrating knife

* castrate, dock, and notch lambs, kids, and piglets

all-in-one lamb castrator, docker, and ear marker

* assist with the delivery of a calf

obstetrical chains and handles

* assist with the delivery of a calf

fetal extractor

* assist with the deliver of a calf

calf snare

* help guide OB wire to appropriate area for cutting

obstetrical wire guide

* disarticulate a dead fetus so as to aid in its removal

fetotomy knife

* disarticulate a dead fetus so as to aid in its removal

fetatome

* hold onto fetus while performing an embryotomy
* OB hook

krey obstetrical hook

* suture a large animal after abdominal surgery or to suture the vagina closed after a prolapse

umbilical tape with buhner needle

* retain a uterine or vaginal prolapse

vulva suture pins

* check for freemartin heifers nad to determine whether a heifer that is a twin to a bull has a normal repro tract

freemartin probe

* protect personnel from zoonotic diseases and keep clothing clean

obstetrical gloves

* retain a vaginal prolapse

ewe prolapse retainer

* helps a lamb from the birth canal

lambing instrument

* rough-cut long hooves of cattle and horses while the foot is on the ground

long-handled hoof nippers: squire hoof trimmers

* trims the frog and sole

hoof knife

* trim the sole

swiss hoof knife

* check through a hoof wall for abscesses or sore spots

hoof tester

* curette a small hoof abscess

hoof abscess knife

* help a cow that has injured a hoof by protecting the injured hoof

hoof blocks

* clip wolf teeth of piglets

pig tooth nipper

* retain rectal prolapses

rectal prolapse rings

* trim excess hoof material

hoof trimmer for sheep and goats

* open teat canal

teat dilator

* makes an incision from the inside to the outside

teat slitter

* scrape the inside of the teat canal and remove obstructions or tumors or to take biopsy specimens

cornell teat curette

* open stenotic teat by incising through scar tissue or other constricting tissue

lichty teat knife or bistoury

* administer medications into the teat canal

udder-infusion cannula

* screen for and diagnose mastitis

california mastitis test kit

* keep an injured teat open for milking

milking tubes

* support an injured or pendulous udder

udder support

* provide a connection between the IV catheter and the IV fluids and to regulate the flow of those fluids

simplex intravenous bell sets

* administer liquid medications orally

dose syringe

* give large amounts of oral fluids to calves, foals, or lambs

oral calf drencher

* deliver liquid medication directly to stomach or to relieve gas from the rumen

stomach tube

* pump medication through the stomach tube into the stomach

drench pump

* deliver solid medication to large animals orally

balling gun

* holds jaw open wide enough to enable the passage of stomach tube

frick speculum

* transfer liquid contents of one bottle to another without use of a syringe

transfer needle

* administer IM or SQ injections to multiple animals without reloading syringe

automatic dose syringe