Animal Restraint - Ya, It's a Real Class

So I took my last 2 finals today - Animal Restraint and History 202. Yepp, Animal Restraint is a real class haha I never got to post about the cool field trips we had for that class so since it's the end of the semester I figured I would sum it up in one post! The first half of the semester we went on a couple field trips but they weren't too great. We went to the BYU vet clinic twice - once to work with cats and another time to work with dogs. We also went to an exotic vet clinic in Draper and learned about how to restrain different types of birds. Unfortunately we didn't get any hands on stuff because he didn't have any birds in that day, so it was lame and we only had a powerpoint presentation by the vet. The last month of the semester was when we started going on the cool field trips! The first cool field trip was to the Church's Dairy Farm in Elberta. We saw how all the cows got, milked saw some newborn baby calves, and even watched a cow give birth! That was pretty nifty haha I will probably never see that happen again!

yepp, that calf is about 5 minutes old!

 After seeing all of that, we went to a section of the dairy farm with head stocks and once the cows were in the head stocks we put halters on tem and learned how to correctly tie them up as a form of basic restraint and way to hold cows in order to give them oral medications. 

  

The next week we went to a goat farm and helped the owner draw blood from all his goats to test for parasites and microbes. It was definitely kinda frustrating and rushed and my least favorite field trip. Also the field trip went way to long and I just wasn't digging the whole goat thing haha The second to last week of class we went a vets land/ stable/ barn and learned about horse restraint. I helped pick out the horses hooves and also gave the horse an IM injections (intra-muscular)! So now the horse won't get west nile virus all thanks to me!

It was definitely a unique experience! I tried to put the needle in carefully but the skin was so thick it wouldn't go in! Apparently you just have to stab the horse haha so that's what I did! We also saw some cute little sheep in the lot next to it and they were freaking adorable. There were these little black lambs that would frolic across the field and it was kinda the cutest thing ever!

Our last field trip was to the Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork and learned about Llama restraint techniques! We learned how to corner llamas, halter them, and sheer them. We also took the llamas on walks! It was cool :) haha I really wanted to watch the Emperor's New Groove after hanging out with all the llamas!

 There are more pics with the llamas on someone elses camera but unfortunately I don't have them! But anwayyy, those are the coolest parts of Bio 270 aka Animal Restraint in one blog post! Oh, and it's officially summer! WOOHOO! :)