Instrument ID

Ear Notcher

To make a permanent identifying marks in the ears of pigs, goats, and sheep.

Tag Applicator

To apply ear tags to cattle, sheep, and goats.

Tattoo Outfit: Manual

To identify an animal permanently by placing numbers or letters inside the ear, lip, or thigh.

Hot-Iron Branding Iron

To identify an animal permanently by placing numbers, letters, or designs on the animal's shoulder or hip.

Electric Branding Iron

To identify an animal permanently by placing numbers, letters, or designs on the animal's shoulder or hip.

Freeze Branding Irons

To identify an animal permanently by placing numbers, letters, or designs on the animal's shoulder or hip.

Marking Paint

To mark an animal temporarily.

Rope Halter

To control an animal's head while the animal is in a chute or while it is being led.

Cattle Prods

To make livestock move into chutes or alleyways.

Squeeze Chute

To secure a cow or bull in place while maintaining access to its head, feet, and rear.

Nose Lead

To control the head by applying pressure to the nasal septum.

Bull Ring

To control the head of a bull by applying pressure to the nasal septum on a semipermanent basis.

Lariat with Quick-Release Honda

To capture an animal by the neck or feet.

Hip Lift

To assist a cow to stand; most commonly used in postparturient paresis, milk fever, generalized weakness, obturator paralysis caused by fracture repairs, and when a cow is down on wet cement.

Cow Sling

To get a cow back on its feet after surgery, injury, or illness.

Trocar and Cannula

To release from the rumen gases that cause bloating.

Magnets

To collect and hold metal that has been ingested by a cow as it eats. The metal can cause "hardware disease" if allowed to pass through the rumen.

Calf Weaners

To keep weaned calves and adults from nursing.

Horn Gouge

To remove horn buds or very small horns.

Barnes Dehorner

To remove small horns from calves, goats, and sheep.

Keystone Dehorner (Guillotine)

To remove medium-sized to large horns.

Wire Saw (Gigli Wire) with Handles

To remove large horns.

Electric Dehorner

To remove horn buds by killing the cells that produce horns or to cauterize blood vessels after the horn has been removed by other methods.

Burdizzo Emasculatome

To perform a bloodless castration in a large animal.

Elastrator

To perform bloodless castration device using small elastic bands.

White Emasculator

To perform castration on a large animal.

Newberry Castrating Knife

To cut the scrotal sac for testicle exposure.

All in One Lamb Castrator, Docker, and Ear Marker

To castrate, dock the tails and notch the ears of lambs, kids, and piglets.

Obstetrical Chains and Handles

To assist with the delivery of a calf.

Fetal Extractor

To assist with the delivery of a calf.

Calf Snare

To assist with the delivery of a calf.

Obstetrical Wire Guide

To help guide the OB wire to the appropriate area for cutting.

Fetotomy Knife

To disarticulate a dead fetus so as to aid in its removal.

Fetatome

To disarticulate a dead fetus so as to aid in its removal.

Krey Obstetrical Hook

To hold onto the fetus while performing an embryotomy.

Umbilical Tape with Buhner Needle

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

Vulva Suture Pins

To retain a uterine or vaginal prolapse.

Freemartin Probe

To check for freemartin heifers and to determine whether a heifer that is a twin to a bull calf has a normal reproductive tract.

Obstetrical Gloves

To protect personnel from zoonotic diseases and keep clothing clean.

Ewe Prolapse Retainer

To retain a vaginal prolapse.

Lambing Instrument

To help a lamb from the birth canal.

Long-Handled Hoof Nippers (Square Hoof Trimmers)

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

Hoof Knife

To trim the frog and sole of an animal's foot.

Swiss Hoof Knife

To trim the sole of an animal's foot.

Hoof Tester

To check through a hoof wall for abscesses or sore spots.

Hoof Abscess Knife

To curette a small hoof abscess.

Hoof Blocks

To help a cow that has injured a hoof by protecting the injured hoof.

Pig Tooth Nipper

To clip the wolf teeth of piglets.

Rectal Prolapse Rings

To retain rectal prolapses.

Hoof Trimmer for Sheep and Goats

To trim excess hoof material

Teat Dilator

To open the teat canal.

Teat slitter

To make an incision from the inside to the outside.

Cornell Teat Curette

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

Lichty Teat Knife, or Bistoury

To open stenotic teats by incising through scar tissue or other constricting tissue.

Udder-Infusion Cannula

To administer medications into the teat canal. Other possible uses include draining a mastitic quarter, keeping a teat canal or sphincter open during and after surgery, flushing an abscess, and performing a peritoneal tap.

California Mastitis Test Kit

To screen for and diagnose mastitis in cattle.

Milking Tubes

To keep an injured teat open for milking.

Udder Support

To support an injured or pendulous udder.

Simplex Intravenous Bell Sets

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

Dose Syringe

To administer liquid medications orally.

Oral Calf Drencher

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

Stomach Tube

To deliver liquid medications directly to the stomach via the esophagus; also used to relieve gas from the rumen in cases of moderate bloat.

Drench Pump

To pump medication through the stomach tube into the stomach.

Balling Gun

To deliver solid medication to large animals orally.

Frick Speculum

Used on large animals to hold the jaws open wide enough to enable the passage of the stomach tube down the throat

Transfer Needle

To transfer the liquid contents of one bottle to another without the use of a syringe.

Automatic Dose Syringe

To administer IM or SQ injections to multiple animals without reloading the syringe