Week 5 Assignment Instructions - Health Management Plan

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Del curso dictado por University of Florida

The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

434 calificaciones

University of Florida

The Horse Course: Introduction to Basic Care and Management

434 calificaciones

There are over 100 million horses, donkeys and mules in the world today and owners of these animals can be found on almost every continent and in almost every society. The Horse Course will cover many unique aspects of equine ownership and touch upon the science behind many of today’s management practices.

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Maintaining Equine Health

The topics this week will focus on equine health. Monitoring and taking care of your animal’s health is critical to owning any equid. We will start off with the normal equine vital signs and then we will discuss administering first aid to your animals. We will then cover the different parasites and diseases that can afflict these animals. Finally, we will end the week discussing some common genetic disorders.

Week 5 Assignment Instructions - Health Management Plan6:07

Conoce a los instructores

Chris J. Mortensen, Ph.D.
Professor
Animal Sciences

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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.

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.

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.

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

four of those parasites that you've listed for your animal.

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.

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.

So what you're going to do is say, when are you going to

vaccinate, and what you're vaccinating for on that calendar, that yearly calendar.

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.

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.

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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