HOW TO IDENTIFY DISEASES AND TREAT ANIMAL WOUNDS

Preventing widespread herd sickness relies on accurate diagnosis, clean recovery setups, and fast first-aid choices.

• Study viral, bacterial, protozoal, and tick-borne livestock diseases.
• Learn how fever, inflammation, and immunity fight infection.
• Practice hands-on wound care, bandaging, and safe animal restraint.
• Master livestock quarantine rules, vaccination setups, and emergency care.

Course Duration: 100 hours

Course Structure

There are 10 lessons in this course.

1. Introduction to Animal Health
   • Describe common diseases affecting farm animals
   • The healthy animal
   • Causes of ill health
   • Preventing ill health
2. Signs & Symptoms of Diseases
   • Physical symptoms of diseases
   • Common methods of handling animals during health assessments
   • Recognising ill health
   • Restraining a horse
   • Sheep handling facilities
3. Disease Classification
   • Methods used in classifying animal diseases
   • Viral diseases
   • Bacterial diseases
   • Parasitic diseases
   • Protozoal diseases
   • Disease types in beef cattle
   • Diseases in sheep
4. Causes and Diagnosis of Disease
   • Causes of disease and the relevant methods of diagnosis
   • Examining cattle
   • Examining a horse
   • Ticks
   • Tick-borne diseases
   • Dagnosis of diseases
5. Treatment of Disease
   • Methods used in the treatment of diseases in farm animals
   • Vaccination
   • Animal first aid kit
   • Tetanus antiserum
   • Animal nursing
   • Quarantine
   • Slaughter
   • Post-mortem
   • Disease prevention in cattle
   • Disease prevention in sheep
   • Treatment of parasites in sheep
6. Inflammation
   • Outline the nature and causes of inflammation in farm animals
   • Inflammatory response
   • Causes of inflammation
   • Types of inflammation
   • Symptoms of inflammation
   • Inflammatory exudate
   • Treatment of inflammation
7. Fever and Immunity
   • The biological mechanisms underlying fever and the immune system in farm animals
   • The fever mechanism
   • Other temperature-related disorders
   • Effect of temperature on enzymes
   • Immunity
8. Tissue Repair
   • The biological mechanisms underlying tissue repair in farm animals
   • Healing of a clean incised wound
   • Healing of an open wound
   • Common horse ailments
9. Wounds
   • The biological mechanisms of wounds in farm animals and address different treatment methods for repair of common ailments
   • Types of wounds
   • First aid treatments
   • Bandaging horses
   • Emergencies
10. Cell changes
    • The causes and biological mechanisms of cell change in farm animals
    • Neoplasms, tumours, and cancers
    • The course of an infectious disease
    • Death
    • Cancers, and more

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