This course will offer introduction to practicalities of post-mortems on farm, with a lecture followed by a practical session.  The course will also introduce the use of captive bolt guns for the purpose of on-farm euthanasia, and the safety maintenance, and troubleshooting of the devices, with reference to emergency slaughter, pithing, bleeded and use of bullet euthanasia.  

This course will utilise the onsite abattoir at Sutton Bonington to give a hands on approach to the collection and use of samples collected at the abattoir from cull and prime stock.  The course will also cover how to send samples and how to utilize the results of the abattoir sample analysis to monitor the herd and improve nutritional status.  Further to the interpretation we will explore together the strategies available to correct identified nutritional issues and how to check that our approach has worked.