Beef Cattle Technique Skills Week
All assignments are DUE, PRINTED OUT and ORGANIZED in folder, on Monday at the start of class.
If you don’t finish in class this assignment is HOMEWORK
Thur: Watch History Channel Beef Farming video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3QqT9B7lPk&list=PLJ5nOERWUjX05F_XnSpB1bS6KtkZ-D_gi
Friday and Monday: Beef Skills and Processes: Standard Operating Procedures:
SOP
You will need to COMPLETE a DIY TASK SHEET the following
THREE activities for each of the THREE beef skills
1.) RESEARCH
A. Find an online
fact sheet/blog about how to do each of the beef skills
- Print a screen shot or PDF of one of the website pages
B.
Watch a YouTube video that gives directions on how to do the skill.
Check the vet videos series I gave you
-Print a screen shot of the YouTube website page
2.) DIY TASK SHEET
A. USING what you learned from the website and video type up your own DIY Task Sheet for each of the skills
that will walk someone through the steps to do the task using correct beef cattle and vet science terminology.
You can pick the method/equipment for each skill. See listed options.
B. You should use word and pictures/illustrations to make your task sheet each to follow and industry based.
C. Site your source(s) of information on the task sheet
D. PRINT in color
E. Include the answers for the Enrichment Web Quest Questions on your Task Sheet (CUT and PASTE the Questions)
YOU CAN USE ANY OF THE BEEF SKILLS AS SAE SKILLS
THAT YOU WANT TO LERN MORE ABOUT ON YOUR OWN TIME
ten skills outside of class time and record your time and what you learned in your AET records for this class.
You need a picture you doing at least one of the skills and upload it to your class AET
1.) Beef Cattle Dehorning Techniques:
A. Barnes Dehorner
B. Tube Dehorner
C. Hot Iron Dehorner
Technique Enrichment Web Quest:
A. What are three beef cattle breeds that are not polled and have horns?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef_cattle
B. What two beef economical facts did the National Beef Quality Audit discover about bull
castration BMP’s in North America?
http://www.beefresearch.ca/research-topic.cfm/dehorning-69
C.
The ____________ form of the gene is
___________________ to the _________________ form of the gene. All animals carry _____________ copies of the gene. An animal with two copies of the dominate polled
version of the gene is called ______________ polled. All of its offspring will _____________
a polled version of the gene, and they will all be polled even if they inherit a “horned”
version from the other parent. An animal with two recessive horned versions of the gene
(_______________) will have horns. An animal with one copy of the polled version and one
horned version (_____________ or _______________) will also be _________, because the
dominant polled version ________________ or dominated the horned version.
(Cut and paste this on to your Task Sheet)
http://www.beefresearch.ca/research-topic.cfm/dehorning-69
2.) Beef Cattle Identification Techniques: “BRANDING”
A. Plastic Ear Tagger
B. Hot or Freeze Branding
C. Electronic Tag
Technique Enrichment Web Quest:
A. Find a brand from a beef cattle ranch.
https://www.google.com/search?q=cattle+ranch+brands&biw=1093&bih=510&tbm=isch&tbo=u&sour
ce=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiWi4rus9_PAhXHyj4KHULAAkwQsAQIIg
VIEW the PAGE
Explain what the meaning of the brand design?
Cut and Paste the brand design on your task skill sheet
B. Why do western ranches have unique brands? Hint: Government land
(BLM) grazing
3.) Beef Cattle Bull Castration: “BANDING”
http://hereford.org/static/files/0208_Castration.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UrCHbxTJbA
A. Elastrator Bander
B. High Tension Bander
C. Surgical Knife/Scalpel
Technique Enrichment Web Quest:
A. What anaerobic disease, Clostridium tetani / “Lock Jaw” is possible when banding?
http://vetbook.org/wiki/cow/index.php?title=Tetanus
B. What does anaerobic mean?
http://www.netvet.co.uk/cattle/vaccination/tetanus.htm
C. How is an antitoxoin and toxoid vaccine different (ie Tetanus)?
https://www.valleyvet.com/c/livestock-supplies/cattle-vaccines/cattle-tetanus-vaccines.html
http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/academic/bio/hale/bioT_EID/lectures/tetanus_toxoids.html