Learning objectives
The student must learn how to holding the animals, diagnostic procedures, therapeutical options in surgery and obstetric clinic, anaesthetic protocols and surgery techniques expecially in equine and minor in bovine. In particular, the self-employed sector will take care of:
Fertility test in the stallion
Protocols for the preparation, the refrigeration and the delivery of the semen in the stallion
Techniques for the resumpion of the normal ovarian activity of the mare
Caslick’s surgery
Twins pregnancy reduction in the mare
Oestrus syncronization programs in the mare
Oestrus syncronization programs in the cow
- Artificial insemination in cows)
- Artificial insemination in mares)
Post ovulatory and therapeutical antibiotic uterine infusion in the mare and in the cow
Clinical and ecographic pregnancy diagnosis in the mare and in the cow
Delivery assistance in the cow and in the mare
- Eutocic
- Dystocic
- Caesareus
Parturition induction in cows and mares
Treatment of retained placenta in the cow and in the mare
Assistance and first cares to the newborn in the different species
Neonatal and perinatal pathologies in bovine and equine species and their therapy)
- Rectal palpation and ultrasonographycal examination in the cow
- Rectal palpation and ultrasonographycal examination in the mare