Tips for Skill 40

This skill will require you to orally medicate ruminant patients using a balling gun and a dose syringe. You will also have to orally medicate equine patients using a dose syringe. Upon completion of this skill, you will be able to medicate ruminant patients using a dose syringe and balling gun and medicate equine patients using a dose syringe.

Tips for materials that need to be submitted:

• Video of student using a balling gun and a dose syringe on a ruminant to orally medicate them

  • You only need one video of each

  • Make sure that they are the appropriate size for the ruminant you are performing the procedure on

  • You can pick the type of ruminant you perform the procedures on; cow, sheep, goat.

  • You do not have to have an actual drug in the syringe, it can be water

• Video of you using a dose syringe to orally medicate a horse

  • You only need to demonstrate the use of the dose syringe not the balling gun

  • You do not need to have an actual drug in the dose syringe it can be water