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Site: eBEVA
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Joint injections Consider using x-ray guidance to ensure you're in the right place, especially if you, personally, don't often block that joint eg a pastern. |
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Mistakes Things will go wrong, and it sometimes it will be your fault. Remember the adage - its not whether you get knocked down, its whether you get back up again.
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Mules - Mules are a cross between a donkey
stallion and a horse mare.
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Mules Although mules are non-fertile, castration of stallions is still
advisable to limit undesirable behaviour. |
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Mules Fearful mules initially show subtle behavioural signs of fear like
the donkey, then rapidly switch between the flight responses of the horse and
the fight responses of the donkey. |
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Mules When the subtle signs of fear are missed, stressed mules can
appear explosive and aggressive and can pose a high risk to the handler. |
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Mules Mules tend to exhibit pain behaviour more readily than the donkey
and so may show more obvious signs of colic. |
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Mules If a mule has not had any formal training, is stressed or has
previously shown any dangerous behaviour, early sedation should be considered
for veterinary procedures prior to catecholamine release. |
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Mules Use of oral or intramuscular sedation may be more appropriate in a mule than
trying to gain intravenous access. |
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Mules Doses of sedation may need to be significantly increased in
stressed/fearful mules due to circulating catecholamines. |
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