VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

TOENAIL-CLIPPING TECHNIQUE

• Restrain the bird carefully and without any excitement
• Using aseptic technique, make a small cut at the end of the toenail.
• Use capillary tube for collection of blood sample
• Use absorbable cotton for the arrest of blood after the completion of collection by using this route.