University:
Sam Houston State University
Course:
BIOL 2413 | General Zoology
Academic year:

2020
Views:

478

Pages:

11
Author:

Clint W.

Question 1 • You should always wear shoulder-length gloves as protection for both you and the cow. • Do Gloves need to be changed after each cow or heifer? Yes • Why or why not? Disease can be transferred with dirty sleeves. Question 2 • You’re about to insert your hand into the cow’s rectum. • How far should you go before you begin searching for the cervix? Wrist deep. Question 3 • Sometimes it’s difficult to work around feces in the rectum. • What should you do to make it easier? If necessary remove enough feces to perform the required manipulations. Avoid excessive in and out movement, as this causes the rectum to balloon and must be removed. Question 4 • After you’ve located the cervix, how should it be held if you want to manipulate it onto the tip of the syringe? Between the thumb and fingertips from the side. Question 5 • Why should you thoroughly wipe the area around the vulva before you insert the syringe? Helps keep the inside of the vagina free from contamination. Question 6 • How do you know if your syringe tip gets caught in a vaginal fold? You can feel it outside the cervix, or it is pushing in soft elastic tissue. • What should you do? Back up and maneuver around the fold. Question 7 • How can you eliminate the trap created by the circular blind pouch? By closing the pouch off with your thumb and fingertips. Question 8 • Halfway through the cervix the tip of your syringe won’t easily move forward anymore. You think the cervix bends sharply downward. • What action should you take to keep the syringe moving forward? Carefully manipulate the cervix to pass through the folds to reach the “target”. Question 9 • After several failed attempts to find the target you decide that it would be easier to pass the tip of the syringe all the way through the cervix, into the uterus and then back up to the target.Your instructor tells you that you shouldn’t do this. • Why not? Because you can damage the fragile uterine tissue by scraping it or puncturing it. Question 10 • How do you know exactly when the tip of the syringe has reached the target? With your index finger on top of the cervix you can feel the tip of the syringe at the end of the hard tissue of the cervix. Question 11 • If you suspect a cow is pregnant, what should you do? Do not go all the way through the cervix with the syringe.