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Feb 05, 2025
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AGV 146 - Large Animal Care
Course Department: Science
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Course Description:
Large Animal Care provides students with a background in large animal breeds and breed identification, large animal diseases, obstetrics, vaccination protocol, and disease prevention. Laboratory topics include large animal restraint, nursing procedures, anesthesiology, and surgical assisting. Experience is provided on live animals in a field setting.
Mode(s) of Instruction: Traditional/Face-to-Face
Course Fees: None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Handle common farm and large animals.
- Provide safe and effective care for equine, beef and dairy cattle, goats, and sheep.
- Recognize unique husbandry of large animals.
- Perform methods of injections and dosing.
- Perform physical exams.
- Recognize abnormal behaviors.
* Outcomes adapted from AVMA CVTEA
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