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Check out a day in the life of student ultrasound technician Kyle Schulte
A day in the life of ISU ultrasound scanning team member Kyle Schulte:
- Pick up a state vehicle from transportation services. Occasionally this is done the day before because of the travel distance and time involved.
- Load the ultrasound equipment and supplies. I keep the equipment maintained and in working order. Our group has 3 Aloka 500 Ultrasound scanners that are owned by Iowa Pork Producers Association.
- Drive anywhere from 15 minutes to 4-plus hours to the specific county livestock scanning area
- Upon arrival, set up a suitable scanning area with table, chute, and electricity. During research scanning generally done at ISU swine farms, there may be several of us in addition to undergraduate students who will record data, run the ultrasound scanner, and load animals into the chute. However, when we provide the service at county shows, we travel alone and rely on the county staff and exhibitors for assistance.
- Scan the pigs and record the data
- Enter the data into spreadsheet
- Generate the ranking. After all of the pigs at a given show have been scanned and the data has been recorded, I’ll clean up and put away the equipment, grab my laptop and a cold Pepsi, and head to the extension office or other similar location which is usually on the fairgrounds. Then, with help from the county staff, I’ll enter the data into the formulas and generate a ranking for percent of fat-free lean and/or lean gain on test. Once this final ranking has been passed onto the county staff electronically and in printed hard copy, my work is done.
- Write out the bill for services and head back to Ames to prepare for the next county scanning date.
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