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JANUARY 2009 HOMEWORK 2
1. Here is a link to the Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control.
You can find information about FAMACHA and alternative methods for controlling intestinal parasitism.
2. Here is a link to the scrapie eradication website. There are some videos there showing clinical signs of scrapie in sheep.
3. Here is a link to the producers guide to scrapie.
4. Here is a link to another double-muscled breed of cattle from Italy, one that is being selected for the myostatin gene.
5. Here is a link to one of the few Buffalo creameries in the United States.
7. Here is a link to information about the Senepol cattle from St. Croix. You can visit the Castle Nugent on your next trip to the island.
8. Here is the link to the King Ranch. They were responsible for finding the cause of Texas tick fever and the development of the Santa Gertrudis and Santa Cruz cattle breeds and the American Quarter horse.
13. General information about bovine papillomatosis can be found here.
14. For information about dermatophilosis, check out this site.
15. Information about bovine herpes mammillitis virus can be found here.
16. Here is a link to the Great Plains Veterinary Education Center. You might want to consider doing an externship there.
17. Here are some more websites with information about rope halters and knots.
Here is another one with information about knots.
18. By the way, those of you doing anesthesia on sheep may want to review information on acid-base balance.
11. For more information about besnoitiosis in animals check here.
Next go to ths website. Check out the September 2002 issue.
12. What are we celebrating concerning screwworm eradication?
9. What are the elements of a successful bio-balanced fly control program?
Check here for details.
10. You can find information about fly predators here.
19. Here is the link to the Merck Veterinary Manual Online.
20. There is a good list of bovine topics listed at this website. Find the cattle lameness 
page and look under animal factors. Which breed of dairy cattle has a hard foot? What does the color of the foot have to do with lameness?
page and look under animal factors. Which breed of dairy cattle has a hard foot? What does the color of the foot have to do with lameness?21. There is a comprehensive cattle lameness website located here. Go to the lameness tab on the left and check out the information. Also check out the farm technologies tab and look under cow shoes. What is a shoof? Also check here for information on hairy heel warts.
22. There is a vaccine for foot rot in cattle. You can get more information here. Go to the disease selector again and this time look under footrot. What other cattle disease condition does the foot rot vaccine help prevent?
23. A comprehensive slide show on dairy cattle lameness is located here.
I recommend viewing the slide show. Another one is found here.
24. Check out this website. From here you can link to a greeting card page and a disease page, among other things. Check out foot rot and blackleg by going to this link.
25. Read about blackleg here.
26. What is the suspected pathogenesis of typical sole ulcers in cattle? You may find the answer here. Is biotin important in hoof health in cattle?
27. There are some more references on herd lameness in cattle. One is found here.
28. Check out the NACFT website. Go to the photo gallery.
29. Here is a good website concerning prevention of lameness in cattle.
30. Here is a website with a quiz on lameness in cattle.
32. Here is a link to the University of Pennsylvania Field Services page with a link to the dairy page and further to the lameness page.
33. Check out the University of Florida Beef Cattle Publications website. Approximately how much will an owner lose in terms of medication and production loss if a group of feeder calves gets sick at a feedyard? How does one define a "healthy" animal or herd of animals? What is the estimated blood loss per animal per day from an economic threshhold level of horn fly infestation? There are many interesting publications on this website that pertain to topics discussed in class.
34. Check the Merck Manual for a good article on calf diphtheria.
35. Here is an article about a unique method of vaccination.
36. Here is some information about Mannheimia and respiratory disease.
37. Here is some more information about bovine respiratory disease.
38. Of course, there is some more information at this site about respiratory disease in cattle.
39. Read about a genetically engineered shipping fever vaccine here.
40. Read about updated information concerning drug use in food animals here. Here is information about Draxxin and Excede.
