Farm Animal Nursing Exam 3-Pigs and Poultry

True or False: Castration is not typically done until 3-4 weeks old in male piglets

False

What can happen to meat if a pig is left uncastrated?

Tainting-severe odor

What is the normal pulse rate in swine?

60-90bpm

What is a complication that can occur when drawing blood from the cranial vena cava in swine?

Hitting the right vagus or phrenic nerves

What is a complication of tail docking if the tail is removed too close to the anus?

rectal prolapse

What two swine diseases present with GI symptoms such as diarrhea in neonatal swine?

Enteric colibacillosis and clostridium perfringens type c enteritis

Which venous location allows for the largest sample size collection in swine?

Cranial vena cava

What disease in swine is reportable to the state?

Brucellosis

What are the symptoms of Glasser disease?

Fever, cough, lameness, and depression

What does SMEDI stand for?

Stillbirth, mummification, embryonic death, and infertility

What is the causative agent of atrophic rhinitis?

Bordetella bronchiseptica

Why are iron injections important in piglets?

prevention of iron deficiency anemia

Which of the following statements about jugular vein blood collection in swine is true?

Venipuncture of the right jugular vein is preferred over the left jugular vein

True or False: A properly positioned hog snare is applied to the upper jaw of an adult pig in front of their cheek teeth

True

What is the dental formula for adult swine?

2 (I3/3, C 1/1, PM 4/4, M 3/3)

What is the preferred location for intramuscular injections according to pork quality assurance guidelines?

Lateral Cervical Muscles

Where is an epidural performed in an adult sow?

Lumbosacral junction

True or False: most oral medications are delivered to groups of pigs in their water or feed

True

True or false: Tail docking is performed within the 2 days of birth

True

True or False: Piglets are born with 4 needle teeth

false

True or false: Tail biting can cause paralysis of the hindlimbs of piglets.

true

True or false: Needle teeth should not be cut closer than 1 to 2 mm from the gum line

True

True or false: Malignant Hyperthermia is a genetic disease in swine that can be treated with IV dantrolene if early on. 

True

What is the method of transmission of exudative epidermitis?

Skin wounds

What are brownish semi-solid feces with white urate caps called?

Enteric feces

What are dark brown, liquidy feces called?

Cecal feces

Which poultry disease has 100% morbidity?

Infectious bronchitis

True or false: the right jugular vein is larger and easier to visualize for poultry venipuncture

True

Which disease presents with skin lesions along with pneumonia in poultry?

Fow pox

Beak trimming is performed in the commercial poultry industry to help reduce damage from what 3 things?

cannibalism, feather pecking, vent pecking

All of the following are examples of poultry identification, except:

Leg band

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Wing band

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True or False: the causative agent of omphalitis aka mushy chick disease is viral.

False, it is bacterial

All of the following are contraindications to crop gavage feed except which one? GI impaction, crop stasis, administration of oral medication or ileus

Administration of oral medications

Which respiratory disease is primarily a problem of poor environmental conditions, not infections from bird to bird?

Aspergillosis

When sexing chickens at birth, what should be looked at?

the feathers

What animal is the major carrier of avian influenza?

water fowl

Desnooding is performed at what age in birds?

1 day

Which respiratory disease has a primary necropsy lesion of hemorrhagic tracheitis?

Laryngotracheitis

Which of the following poultry diseases is reportable?

Infectious bronchitis

Avian leukosis

Avian influenza

Laryngotracheitis

Avian Influenza

True or False: subcutaneous injections in poultry are given in the back of the neck

True

True or false: food should not be withheld prior to caponization surgery

False

True or False: Local anesthesia is adminstered over the last two ribs on both the right and left sides

True

True or false: Local anesthesia is adminstered over the last two ribs on both the right and left sides for caponization surgery

True

True or false: A complication of caponization can be inadvertent destruction of an air sac

True

What are three vaccination techniques that are used in the poultry industry

spray, water administration, in ovo

What is a risk factor for developing Histomoniasis?

Housing chickens with turkeys

What disease out of the following does not have a vaccine?

Fowl cholera

infectious bronchitis

fowl pox

marek’s disease

Fowl cholera

True or false: intraperitoneal injections can be utilized in poultry to deliver fluids

True

What is the normal TRP for pigs?

101-105.3 F

60-90 bpm (adults) 200-280 bpm (newborns)

10-24 rpm (adults) up to 50 (young swine)