Day 1 of handling exams OVER!

So, one day down, 3 to go! Today was our first set of handling exams. I had Exotics and Equine today and I was really worried about the exotics portion of the handling exam. Each exam was only 10 minutes long, which isn't bad at all. We took the noon bus out to the veterinary school and waited a couple of hours until it was my turn for the exotics. Every person had a separate time and there were two that went in at a time at two different stations. I went in and was placed at station A, the reptile station. The lady took me into the reptile area and asked me what kind of snake was in the the vivarium. I told her a corn snake (which was correct), she then preceded to ask me where it was from. I guessed and said a desert snake, she said no and gave me another chance. I said, India? Nope, somewhere in the US. Horrible! I mean, come on! I felt like I was back in Herpetology trying to figure out where a species of a snake is from. She asked me how I would approach the snake and I told her, and had to describe to her what I was doing as I was picking up the snake. I got the snake out and we brought it out to the table, where she asked me more questions about the snake. She asked me about skin shedding, behavior and when to know when the snake is agitated, housing requirements for the snake, etc. She then put two bags of food in front of me and asked me what they were. I started out by saying the one on the left is a bird feed and she looked at me puzzled. I took a second look and saw that there were no seeds in the mix. I then said it was rodent mix (which was correct) and then she asked me what the food was on the right. This was a tricky one and I honestly had no idea. The food looked like thin, elongated pellets that were dark brown in color. The only thing that came to mind was Chinchilla Pellets. So that's what I told her. She said I was correct and then asked how I knew they were chinchilla pellets. Ok, like I'm going to know that? Apparently they are elongated so that the chinchilla has an easier time of grasping the food. I put the snake back and washed my hands and was finished. Hopefully I passed that exam, seemed like I did okay with it. Next was horses, which I have to say was SOOOOO easy! It was nice that they were using the teaching mares. I barely had to do anything when it came to lifting the mare's leg, she did it for me. I had to properly put on a head collar, walk with the horse, trot with the horse, tie the horse up, lift legs, lead it back into the stable, answer some questions about the condition of the stable and finally answer a question about which rug I would use on a horse if putting it outside. Now, this one was extremely easy. There were two choices, there was one rug, which was extremely muddy and dirty all over and there was a second rug, which was perfectly clean. Now, which one did I pick? Of course I picked the clean one...Just kidding, the one on the left obviously was an outdoor rug. So, finished with those two and now I have sheep and cattle tomorrow. Hopefully sheep won't be too bad and cattle won't be either. Well, back to studying! Talk to you all later!