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All right.
Welcome to the Health Management Plan video, and this
is going to kind of talk you through this week's assignment.
Now again we're basing this on the animals that you've chosen for the course,
and really you're going to base this on what region of the world you live in.
So, you know, if you're in Asia, Australia,
Europe, here in the Americas, you want to
understand which parasites, really internal parasites are endemic
to your part of the world, and what diseases.
So, so that's really kind of what we're basing this week's plan on.
Now, you do want to go and review the internal parasites video and the
diseases video, because that has all the information that, that really you'll need.
You do a little bit of it you know, an internet search and kind of see, you
know, what your region of the world, what
other horse owners or donkey owners are faced with.
But basically what we're going to be doing this week,
is doing a deworming plan and a vaccination plan.
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So starting with the deworming plan, what you want to do is just
find the four common internal parasites that affect your region of the world.
So you know, we talked about the strongiles, and
the pin worms and the round worms, and tape worms.
So see which ones or bots, see which ones are really kind of endemic to your region.
And kind of base your plan on that, because you know,
the whole, again the whole basis of this horse plan video,
this, this health plan is so you can apply it to
an animal that you either own or you may own one day.
And so you should be familiar with, with you know,
what you'll be needing to do to keep them healthy.
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Now after you list the four, then what you're going to want to do
is, is find out, okay, when am I going to do deworm them.
So, go ahead and, and write out the, the 12 months of the year,
January through December, and then indicate on
which month you're going to deworm your animal.
Now, there's different recommendations out there.
Typically, people will deworm every six to eight weeks.
Some people will just deworm whenever those, those
parasites are going to be prevalent in the environment.
So, you know, either or, is, is fine for this class.
You know, pick one and, and stick with it,
but you know, talk about when you're going to deworm.
So indicate what month you're going to deworm, what parasites you're treating
for, and then what classes of dewormer are you going to use.
Not commercial product but class.
So go, go and look at the different classes.
And again, the internal parasite lecture has that for you.
Now keep your answers very brief, again, remember you're going to have to peer eval
some of yours peers, so you want to make it easier for them to read.
Just briefly, you know, write it out, of what you're going to do.
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Now I do want to give you an example of this.
So I'm going to use Central Florida where, where I'm at, as an example.
And for my deworming plan, I'm just going to show you one.
Remember you have to do four, but I'm going to show you one.
One I'm worried about is tapeworms.
I mean tapeworms are just [SOUND] nasty and, and, and
you really gotta deal with them especially in our equids.
So it, in Florida, tapeworms tend to peak to, to peak
in the fall, so that's when we want to treat our horses.
And so, I'm going to administer ivermectin with
praziquantel in October and again in January.
Now this pransiquentel, is the only class of dewormer
that treats for tapeworms, so, so pay attention to that.
And the benefits of using that with ibromexin is
I'm also treating for bots, pinworms, roundworms and strong gals.
So really dealing with a lot of worms at once.
And I'm only giving it, you know, in October when their might be an infestation
and then, you know, couple months later
in January, towards the tail end of infestation.
So I'm kind of spot treating, treating that.
So again, you want to cover at least four of those
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Now for the vaccination plan, again, this is
going to be very similar to the deworming plan.
We're just doing it for diseases.
So go ahead and list four common diseases to your region of the world.
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And then, again, similar to the deworming plan, you're going to list out the
year, and then you're going to, you're
going to say, when am I going to vaccinate.
So, when would I vaccinate my animal?
And again, this is going to be vaccination dependent.
So, you know, the, when in doubt, ask your
veterinarian, or your can look at the, the directions.
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Okay.
So I want to give you an example again central Florida.
One disease I'm concerned with is tetanus.
Obviously tetanus is, is one we should all vaccinate for,
so there you go there's your first one right there.
And the good thing is, it's, it's an annual vaccine and so it's
going to be easy for me to remember, I give all my annuals in January.
It's when I would vaccinate my animal for tetanus, okay?
But remember, you have to do that for
four, at least four, in your vaccination plan.
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All right, and then, very similar to the other, the other assignments.
We're going to ask you to peer eval your peers, use the grading rubric.
You can see the grading rubric's pretty simple.
You know for the deworming plan, the
vaccination plan, just you know, I advise you
if, if everything looks correct, please give
exceeds expectations you know to your peer evals.
But again, I understand English may not be everybody's primary language, so keep
that in mind, we're looking for content not, you know, how it's written.
And, and that's it.
So, you want to do your health management plans by the
end of week five, and then this week you have
to, we're asking you to finish your peer evals and
the feeding plans that you all turned in last week.
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And then we're going to ask you to, we're going to open up the
peer evals next week and finish them by the end of week six.
So that's it, so I will see you starting
next week on reproduction and I look forward to it.
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Chris J. Mortensen, Ph.D.Professor
