Personal

• Rubber boots
• Overalls
• Gloves
  • disposable
  • post mortem gloves or gauntlets
• Post mortem apron (optional)
• Towel and soap
• Wet weather gear

Animal Husbandry

• Halter
• Nose grips
• Bleeding choke rope
• Twitch
• Pig handler
• Drugs
  • Rompun 2%
  • Xylocaine 2%, etc.

Clinical

Stethoscope

• Thermometers
• Obstetrical gloves

Clinico-pathological

• Nitrate and cyanide test

Clinical Specimens

• Vacutainers - plain, heparin and EDTA
• Vacutainer needle holders and needles (18G)
• Sterile containers (100 ml)
• Sterile bottles
  • 1 oz Macartney - 25 ml
  • Bijou Macartney - 5 ml
• Swabs
• Transport media
  • Amies charcoal transport medium in bottles of commercial swab packs
  • Phosphate buffered glycerol saline (PBGS) in bottles
• Microscope slides (and spreaders for blood films)
• Syringes (1-20 ml) and needles (14-26 G)
• Scalpel handle and disposable blades
• Scissors
• Non-sterile faecal containers (50-100 ml)
• Vaginal mucus pipettes
• Ethanol/iodine for skin asepsis
• Biopsy instruments and small bottles of fixative

Euthanasia

• Rifle and ammunition
• Euthanasia solution and syringe/needle
• Killing knife

Necropsy

• Knives
  • 20 cm skinning 2.5 cm wide straight blade
  • 20 cm skinning 2.5 cm wide curved blade
  • 15 cm boning knife pointed straight
• Steel 30 cm Butcher's
• Footrot secateurs
  • 7.5 cm blades
• Handsaw 30 cm blade and replacement blade
• Scissors
  • Mayo straight 16 cm
  • Mayo straight 14 cm
  • Double sharp 11 cm fine
  • Pointed/1 rounded end and knob (for gut running)
• Bone forceps
• Toothed forceps
  • 20 cm
  • 18 cm
  • 13 cm
• Scalpel handles
  • No. 4
• Scalpel blades
  • No. 24 and/or No. 20
• Rib cutters
• Meatsaw/hacksaw
• Cleaner/hatchet
• Buckets - plastic (2)
• Trays -
  • plastic (large)
  • plastic (small)
• Sterile scissors and forceps for virological tissue samples

Pathological Specimens

• Sterile containers
  • 100 ml
  • 25 ml
  • 5 ml
• Plastic bags 0.1 mm thick
  • large
  • medium
  • small
• Rubber bands
• Microscope slides and diamond pencils, or markable slides and pencil
• Histopath jars with 10% neutral buffered formalin
  • large 500 ml
  • medium 250 ml
  • small 125 ml
• Special fixatives (e.g. Bouins) if required
• Ball of string

Decontamination/Disinfection

• Container and 20 litres water
• Disinfectant - 1 litre Lysol or similar
• Nail scrubbing brush (for cleaning instruments)
• Long handled scrubbing brush (for cleaning boots)
• Roll paper towel
• Plastic garbage bags
• Suitable container for contaminated 'sharps'

Clerical

• Clip board
• Postmortem and Specimen Submission Forms
• Specimen collection handbook
• Pencil
• Marking pens
• Black biro
• Adhesive labels
• String-tie labels

Storage

• Large metal esky with 1 blood vacutainer box and small foam esky inside
• Frozen cold bricks, dry ice or portable car fridge
• Serum storage plastic disposable tubes - 5 ml