How to provide safe and effective cattle injections

This video demonstrates proper injection techniques for administering medications or vaccinations to beef cattle. Every effort must be made to ensure human, animal and food safety are top priority.

When injecting a beef animal:

- use an appropriate size and length of needle,

- follow label directions for route of administration,

- inject 10 ml maximum per injection site or as per label,

- change needles when bent, dull or damaged, and

- leave a hand-width of space between injections.

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🍁 Learn more about antimicrobial resistance at: https://www.beefresearch.ca/topics/antibiotic-resistance/

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🎬 Video Guide:

0:00 Safe and Effective Injection Techniques for Beef Animals, Dr. Kelsey Shacker

0:36 Preferred animal injection site location

2:22 Alternate injection site locations for beef cattle

3:10 Selecting intramuscular or subcutaneous injections

3:45 Volume of injections

4:38 Intramuscular injection techniques for vaccinations or medications

6:41 Using a multi-dose syringe

7:37 One-handed subcutaneous injection technique

8:36 Two-handed subcutaneous injection technique

10:11 Off-label injections

10:30 Veterinary drug storage

11:03 Reconstituting injectable medications

12:19 Remote delivery of drugs

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This information is based on results from the 2017-18 National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA). Learn more at http://www.beefresearch.ca/NBQA

The NBQA was supported by the Canadian Beef Cattle Industry Science Cluster through funding provided by the Beef Cattle Research Council and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Staff contribution was provided by the Canadian Cattlemen's Association.