Thursday, March 25, 2010

Video - Milking Machine

A short video, showing the milking process clearly. This is an excellent introduction to the milking machine, although there is no commentary.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Video - Wrapping Silage Bales

This video shows a silage bale being wrapped using a Conor Bale Wrapper. A great little video.

Video - Silage Cutting in Cork

This video shows the silage cutting processa Fendt 820 mowing with front and rear mounted mowers. It also outlines two Fendt 820 tractors with two Pottinger Silage Wagons 6000 collecting the cut silage and tranporting it to the pit. It doesn't outlined the sealing of the pit or there is no commentary.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Flagella & Cilia

Another useful video for microbiology, this gem shows how some Protista use flagella or cilia to aid propulsion.

Bacterial Growth

This very short video shows the exponential growth of bacteria in culture. A great introduction to bacterial reproduction and  the growth curve.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Semen Collection - Video

Creating the genetically perfect baby may not yet be an option, but in the farming world, creating the perfect calves has become the norm. Ella McSweeney spends the day with a local AI expert to see just what is involved in inseminating cows. Ella follows the inseminator around farms in Ireland. She witnesses the cutting edge technology used to create genetically superior calves, and meets Ireland's top breeding bulls, one who has fathered over 10,000 calves. All Rights To RTÉ.


Artificial Insemination - Video

This video outlines the main stage in using Artificial Insemination (AI).

Harvesting Cereals - Video

This is a good 10 min video showing the range of operations on a (high tech) tillage farm at harvest. The video shows a combine harvester working (Lexion) ,grain being drawn in to yard, batch grain dryer, grain store, straw being baled and drawn home. No voice over. Gives a good overview of this busy period.

Ridge Cultivation - Video

This is a very clear video of ridge cultivation for preparation of seeding potatoes.

Body Condition Scoring

This video outlines how to test an animal's condition score. It is based on the US system (which goes from 1-10, rather than our 1-5 system) but the principal of testing is the same.

Mitosis - Video

This animation of cell division is an excellent introduction to the topic.

Effects of Liver Fluke - Video

This video shows Professor Michael Doherty, UCD, discussing the effects of liverfluke on livestock.

Harvesting Potatoes - Video

This video shows potatoes being harvested. A useful video but not essential to show all of it.

Calving - Video

This excellent video details the calving process and the initial care of the lamb after birth.

Liver Fluke - Video

This video shows immature liver flukes (Fasciola hepatica) wriggling in the cut section of the liver of a sheep that had just died due to acute fasciolosis.


Digestion in Horses - Video

A excellent 3D, computer generated, trip through the equine digestive system.

Digestion - Video

Using 3D imagery, this short video gives an overview of the human digestive system.

Lambs in Nursery - Video

This video outlines the initial care of lambs directly after birth e.g. iodine, colostrum etc.

Active Transport - Video

A short video to demonstrate how active transport allows for cells to "pump" nutrients against the concentration gradient.

Osmosis - Video

Osmosis is the diffusion of water down its concentration gradient. Normally one thinks of water as the solvent, and focuses on the concentration of the solutes, but water itself has a concentration in any solution.