Equine Diagnostic Ultrasound

Ultrasound is an extremely useful tool in clinical practice. Widely used in veterinary reproductive management (estrous control, artificial insemination, pregnancy diagnosis, fetal sexing...), is essential in the diagnosis and treatment support of many lameness and other less common advanced diagnostic procedures such as heart or eye ultrasound...

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Removal of Keloid

Excision of a keloid in the proximal third of the right hind limb in a horse gored months ago, because of a poorly healed.

 

Surgery was emitted in the TV show "Al Trote", cyl8 channel.

Emergency Care in Large Animals

There are many problems that require immediate medical attention. Depending on the problem in question can be sent one or another vet, depending on factors such as proximity to the farm or the specificity of the problem, since in the case of large animals care is done on site most of the times, even surgery, because of the difficulty or inability to move them to a veterinary hospital. Additionally, rotas are set to cover the emergencies that arise out of hours.

In the large animal practice, the more likely clinical emergencies are parturitions, uterine prolapses, indigestions, colics, gorings, fractures...

Surgery in a Fighting Bull

One of the reasons for emergency interventions in fighting bulls herds is gored wounds, in different severity, among bulls into the same batch.

Reproductive Management in Ovine

A group of Hampshire Down ewes ready for lambing

A very important aspect for managing sheep farms is reproductive control. At either milk or meat farms, a good organization of the production batch is essential:

• Lambing
• Dry
• Milking
• Pregnant
• Non pregnant
• Etc.  

Performing ultrasound aids to triage individuals, allowing movement between different batches to manage nutrition, or whether to include in estrus synchronization programs.

These synchronization programs allow us to obtain a greater number of lambs in the unfavorable season, moment in which higher price is reached in the market. On the other hand, in dairy farms let configure more homogeneous milking batches throughout the year and keep a more uniform production.