SEPTEMBER  2013        HOMEWORK  4

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The USDA has some useful publications regarding animal health. Next go to this website:

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/

Check the July 2002 issue.

     20. Do indoor reared pigs benefit from more type 1 or more type 2 immunity?

Check the January 2009 issue.

     21.       Can humans give influenza to swine?

Go to the issue--August 2001.

     22. What drug caused piglets to grow faster during the first 18 days of life?

     23. What is the four poster device?

     24. Check out the article on animal behavior.  Why should beef cattle in a feedlot be                       fed in the evening?

Check the April 2006 issue.

     25. What is the new anti-mastitis weapon??

Check out Pork@Purdue.

     26. Are pigs fed "Paylean" more or less difficult to handle?

Next, go to this website

http://www.pighealth.com/ileitis.htm

     27.  Is Lawsonia gram negative or gram positive?

     28. In what year were Koch's postulates fulfilled concerning Lawsonia?

More about Lawsonia

     29.  What organism has now been identified as causing "wet-tail" in hamsters? 

Lawsonia

     30.  Where was Lawsonia infection reported in a group of  foals?  Oklahoma

Go back to the main page  www.pighealth.com

     31. What is "Stremodo" and what does it do?

Check out the links to disease and management quizzes.  You do not have to take these quizzes

You should be able to find the next answers on the pighealth website, as well.

     32.  What is PMWS?

     33.  What is circovirus?

     34.  What is PDNS?

     35.  What is the greatest concern about PDNS with respect to differential diagnosis?

     36.  Here is the link to Pig Imporvement Company.  On the left you will find links to                      technical manuals for different types of swine.

     37.  Here is a link to information about PEDV, a newer disease in the USA.

     38.  Here is the link to the Swine Medicine Center at Iowa State University.

39.  Here is a link to several important swine diseases on the AASP website.

 

    

Visit www.pighealth.com

1.  Zoonotic risk for E. coli is discussed here.

2.  Who was the patron saint of pigs?  Take the pig quiz.

Go to this website next

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/projects/swine/index.html

Go to the Facilities Quiz 1

Go to question 5.

3.  What does LCT stand for?  Answers here.

Go to the Facilities Quiz 2.  Go to question 8.

4.  To what does "uniformity of microenvironment" refer?  Answers here.

5.  Why are pet pigs spayed or neutered?  Check here for information on neutering. 

Check out the AASV website.

6.  What breed of swine is being used for the study of human obesity?  Ossabaw Island

7.  What substance boosts immunity in nursery swine?   Fish oil.

Go to this web site first.   http://www.peteducation.com/  Answers here.

8.  When did the first woman to successfully practice veterinary medicine graduate                    with a diploma?

9.  When did penicillin first become available for use in veterinary medicine?

10.  Here is a link to an article about a Ross graduate currently in Kosovo.

11.  Check out the animal ambulance for use in feedlots.

Visit Dr. Temple Grandin's home page

http://www.grandin.com

First go to the behavior page.

Then, go to assessment of stress.

12.  Name three psychological stresses affecting animals.

13.  Do animals habituate to procedures which are aversive?

Then, go back.  Next go to training tips.

Go to dealing with excitable pigs.

14.  What three issues seem to be attributed as being cause of highly excitable pigs?

15.  What is the wheat pressure box equine restraint system?

16.  Pressure is most calming to animals and people that are experiencing what three                        things?

17.  Check out the improvised mobile pig medicator here.

18.  Here are some links about the Kune Kune swine.

19.         Here is a link to more PCVAD information.