Improve Your Knowledge of Animal Health

Study common health problems, ways such problems develop, appropriate management procedures, and more in this 100-hour course. Specially developed to help farmers, rehabilitators, and general animal carers, this course will help you learn to diagnose basic problems, deliver care, and recognise signs of ill health. An excellent course for building knowledge and confidence in dealing with animals.

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

WHY CHOOSE US?

Reputation: well-known and respected.

Industry focus: courses designed to suit industry needs and expectations.

Different focus: develop problem solving skills that make you stand out from others.

Hands-on: develop practical as well as theoretical skills.

Lots of help: dedicated and knowledgeable tutors.

Efficient: prompt responses to your questions.

A long track record: established in 1979 with a solid history.

Up to date: courses under constant review.

Resources:  huge wealth of constantly developing intellectual property.

Value: courses compare very favourably on a cost per study hour basis.

Student amenities: online student room, bookshop, ebooks.

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