For a latero-lateral view of the paranasal sinuses centre the beam just dorsal to the rostral aspect of the facial crest.

To avoid movement blur try to keep the exposure times under 0.2s as a rule of thumb.

If you are not sure what exposures your x-ray machine is capable of take a look at the sticker on your x-ray machine……if it doesn't have one tell your manufacturer off!

If you get a noisy image with a “speckly” pattern up the mAs, that will improve your signal-to-noise ratio and hence your image quality.

85% of horses stand toed-out behind…..worth bearing in mind when you struggle getting good alignment on your lateromedial rads.

Using the wooden handle of a twitch can be very helpful as a direction guide when taking x-rays. Lay it on the floor in the direction you want your x-rays to go.

Try using a pennies to measure sarcoids- most people have some small change kicking about, use the smallest one which completely covers the sarcoid.

When banding sarcoids put the elastrator band over a piece of 40mm waste pipe. It'll fit over the sarcoid and the band won't get snagged half on and half off the elastrators.

Maxillary Septal Bulla-  previously called the ventral conchal bulla

When rectalling a diarrhoea case keep you mouth shut! (Same applies for washing out a mare. with retained foetal membranes!)