Assessment angles

The dorsal view is also used to detect tympany by comparing the distances between the spine and the left and right edges of the animal's body.

Detection of tympany

Key points for calculating the fatness score according to the international 5-point methodology are indicated on each angle.

Hook bones, sciatic tubercles, hip joints, wide pelvic ligament, lumbar region

View dorsally

1

Spinous and transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, a line from the hook bones to the hip joint and sciatic bumps

View laterally

2

Hook bones and sciatic tubercles, the arch between the sacral bumps and make loki, the area of the wide pelvic ligament, the area of the root of the tail

View caudally

3

Healthy animal

Animal with tympany

System operation

Visualization of the algorithm's operation