{"id":107,"date":"2010-06-27T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/?page_id=107"},"modified":"2013-01-31T17:45:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T22:45:41","slug":"how-to-tail-bleed-cattle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Tail Bleed Cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Tail Bleed Cattle<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare the bleeding supplies.<\/li>\n<li>Screw the Vacutainer needle onto the needle holder<\/li>\n<li>Insert the Vacutainer tube into the other end of the needle holder until the stopper\u00a0touches the back portion of the needle.<\/li>\n<li>Do not puncture the stopper. Hold these assembled materials in one hand.<\/li>\n<li>Lift the cow&#8217;s tail with the other hand.<\/li>\n<li>Insert the needle about 1\/2 inch deep and perpendicular to the tail at the under\u00a0side, midline and at about 3 to 6 inches from the base of the tail. In this region,\u00a0there is a longitudinal, midline ridge of skin through which you push the needle.<\/li>\n<li>Blood will appear at the junction of the stopper and the back portion of the needle\u00a0once the vein is punctured. If it does not appear, pull the needle out slightly\u00a0and insert in a different direction until the vein is punctured.<\/li>\n<li>Once blood is seen, push the tube onto the needle. Be sure to keep the needle under\u00a0the skin since vacuum will be lost if not. The vacuum will pull blood into the tube\u00a0and if lost, blood cannot be collected. Use a second tube if this happens.<\/li>\n<li>Collect 2 cc or more of blood.<\/li>\n<li>Withdraw the needle from the skin and remover the tube from the tube holder.<\/li>\n<li>Label the tube with the sequence number and the animal identification.<\/li>\n<li>Place the tube in an ice rack or refrigerator until shipment.<\/li>\n<li>Discard the needle into a &#8220;sharps&#8221; container and re-use the needle holder. Use a\u00a0new needle for each cow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Tail Bleed Cattle<\/p>\n<p>Prepare the bleeding supplies.<br \/>\nScrew the Vacutainer needle onto the needle holder<br \/>\nInsert the Vacutainer tube into the other end of the needle holder until the stopper\u00a0touches the back portion of the needle.<br \/>\nDo not puncture the stopper. Hold these assembled materials in one hand.<br \/>\nLift the cow&#8217;s tail with the other hand.<br \/>\nInsert the needle about 1\/2 inch deep and perpendicular to the tail at the under\u00a0side, midline and at about 3 to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_leftnav_sidebar.php","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"How to Tail Bleed Cattle\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Tail Bleed Cattle - Southeast Animal Labs, Rydal Georgia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How to Tail Bleed Cattle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Southeast Animal Labs, Rydal Georgia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-01-31T22:45:41+00:00\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/\",\"name\":\"Southeast Animal Labs, Rydal Georgia\",\"description\":\"Can you Afford Not to Test?\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/\",\"name\":\"How to Tail Bleed Cattle - Southeast Animal Labs, Rydal Georgia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-06-27T14:00:13+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-01-31T22:45:41+00:00\",\"description\":\"How to Tail Bleed Cattle\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/how-to-tail-bleed-cattle\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanimallabs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}