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My name is Kimberly Palgrave and I'm the in house vet for BCF Technology.
Today we are here in England at Langford village,
and we're here at Wyndhurst Farm, which is part
of the University of Bristol Veterinary School.
Today we will be giving a step by step guide on the use
of ultrasonography for evaluation of the bovine reproductive tract.
In these sets of instructional, how to videos what
we'll be looking at is machine setup.
Before we get started we'll
also look at how to restrain the cows
ensuring that we are in a safe working environment.
We'll then look at how to actually hold the probe
and finally
we'll look at actually scanning the cows.
Ultrasound can be used
to not only diagnose pregnancy in cattle but can also be used to evaluate the various structures of the
reproductive tract, including
the ovaries,
the uterus and
also other structures such as the *** and the ***.
This will allow us to be able to better integrate
the information
gained from these types of
examinations into the management protocol of the farm.
Some additional benefits of the use of ultrasound
compared to
manual palpation or
blood tests is that we are able to not only, as we said before,
evaluate the pregnancy
but we can also look
at the viability of that foetus by visualising a heartbeat
We can also be able to determine if there is a twin pregnancy,
potentially
earlier then by manual palpation.
We can also look at ovarian structures such as the
presence of a
corpus luteum or other structures such as
follicular luteal cyst. This will enable us to better manage the herd on an entire level.
better manage the herd on an entire level.