Food animal tech skills instruments test

Ear notcher

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

Identification 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 Irons

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

Electric Branding Irons

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

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 post parturient paresis, milk fever, generalized weakness, obturator paralysis caused by fracture repairs, and when a cow is down on wet cement

Cow Sling

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

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 a bloodless castration or tail dock on a large animal

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

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

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

hold onto the fetus while performing an embryotomy

Umbilical Tape with Buhner Needle

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

Vulva Suture Pins

retain a uterine or vaginal prolapse

Freemartin Probe

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

Ewe Prolapse Retainer

retain a vaginal prolapse

Lambing Instrument

help a lamb from the birth canal

Long-Handled Hoof Nippers (Squire 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

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

screen for and diagnose mastitis in cattle

Milking Tubes

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 intramuscular or subcutaneous injections to multiple animals without reloading the syringe

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