Bovine And Food Animal Division
MTVA has the facilities and experience to deal with bovine performance animals, as well as, herd sires, donor cows and commercial cattle herd work. Our facilities are designed to handle cattle safely to decrease the amount of stress and possible injury that can occur when working with large fractious animals. We also perform routine herd work and have the capabilities to perform individual animal care and hospitalization for your cattle, small ruminants including camelids or pigs.
Facilities
MTVA has facilities to handle Bucking Bulls including a hydraulic chute and alley. Performance animals are treated and hospitalized for a variety of issues related to decreased bucking ability, lameness and illness. Beef cattle herd work and individual animal medicine examinations are also available on your ranch or at our facility. We also have the ability to care for your sheep, goat or pig.
Beef Cattle Herd Work
Herd work and consultation is performed on an hourly basis at your ranch or facilities. Routine work such as pregancy checking using ultrasound (definitive diagnosis of pregnancy at 30 days or sooner, fetal sexing at 56-70 days, reproductive issues in donor cows, etc. can be evaluated), brucellosis vaccination and/or TB and Bangs testing, and breeding soundness exams on herd sires or sale bulls (including Trichomoniasis testing).
Bucking Bull Performance Medicine
Cattle can heal amazingly and given proper care and rest can still perform for many years. This young futurity bull fractured his leg in an event. He has completely healed and the limb is not affected today.
Performance Bovine Medicine
Stetson Posas preparing hocks for joint injection
Acupuncture
A bucking bull with a chronic back injury that demonstrated clinically as right hind lameness.
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Cattle are great responders to Acupuncture! Bucking bulls often have back pain and lameness's that are helped tremendously with the use of acupuncture. Show steers commonly show mid back pain and reluctance to lower their back ("hunched up") secondary to chronic inflammation of the gut (high grain diets) and also respond well to lameness secondary to hind end conformation.
It has also been used successfully in improving fertility, neck pain and many other conditions. |
Show steer with chronic bloat and muscle spasms (very 'tight') over the mid-back. Responded great to acupuncture treatment!
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American Bucking Bull Inc., Age Certification
The ABBI requires bulls that will be performing in ABBI events to be examined by an ABBI certified veterinarian to insure that they are within the proper age limits. Bulls must be registered with the ABBI, number branded and within the ages of 18 - 34 months. A complete list of certified veterinarians can be found at http://www.americanbuckingbull.com/content.aspx?ID=23
Digital Records of Age Certification
Bulls will be mouthed, photographed and a digital copy is sent to the ABBI and available to the owner. Digital copies are archived in MTVA's records, as well. An EID tag will not be immediately issued (as done in the past) but must now go through the ABBI office after they receive our verification. The tag may take several weeks to receive (shipped directly to bull owner) but the bull will still be allowed to compete in ABBI events once all of the information is received. Bulls that have lost their original EID tag do not need to go directly through a veterinarian any longer. Tail hair and the correct form must be sent directly to the ABBI office prior to age certification. Bulls need to be registered within 18 and 34 months of Registered date of birth.
