Goat Medicine
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Goat Medicine

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eBook - ePub

Goat Medicine

About this book

GOAT MEDICINE

Provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the full range of diseases potentially occurring in goats across the wide spectrum of geographic and management conditions in which goats are kept, from extensive grazing to intensive dairy production to backyard pet.

Goat Medicine, Third Edition is a complete resource for understanding caprine diseases worldwide. Covering the latest advances on diagnostic and therapeutic techniques, the two authors, board certified veterinarians with a global experience in goat health and production, offer a comprehensive examination of all important diseases encountered in the goat. The book offers authoritative and clinically relevant information on recognizing, diagnosing, treating, controlling and preventing goat disease at the individual, herd, and national levels.

To aid in reader comprehension and promote seamless assimilation of the knowledge contained within, the book is logically organized by body system and includes full color images throughout. Sample topics covered within the work include:

  • Control of economically important infectious diseases including caprine arthritis encephalitis, paratuberculosis and peste des petits ruminants, as well as internal and external parasites
  • Differential diagnosis of chronic weight loss and sudden death, anesthesia, and dehorning/descenting
  • Nutrition and metabolic diseases, herd health management, and preventive medicine
  • Formulary of drugs used in goats and suggested dosages, plus options for alternative medicine

Scientists, researchers, government veterinarians, laboratory diagnosticians, industry veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and veterinary practitioners around the world can confidently consult this book time and again as an all-in-one, complete resource for all topics pertaining to goat health and disease.

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Information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781119382737
eBook ISBN
9781119382744
Edition
3
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Veterinary Medicine

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Preface to the First Edition
  6. Preface to the Second Edition
  7. Preface to the Third Edition
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Fundamentals of Goat Practice
  10. 2 Skin
  11. 3 Subcutaneous Swellings
  12. 4 Musculoskeletal System
  13. 5 Nervous System
  14. 6 Ocular System
  15. 7 Blood, Lymph, and Immune Systems
  16. 8 Cardiovascular System
  17. 9 Respiratory System
  18. 10 Digestive System
  19. 11 Liver and Pancreas
  20. 12 Urinary System
  21. 13 Reproductive System
  22. 14 Mammary Gland and Milk Production
  23. 15 Wasting Diseases
  24. 16 Sudden Death
  25. 17 Anesthesia
  26. 18 Dehorning and Descenting
  27. 19 Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases
  28. 20 Herd Health Management and Preventive Medicine
  29. Appendix A: Formulary of Some Drugs Used in Goats and Suggested Dosages
  30. Appendix B: Alternative Medicine
  31. Appendix C: Conversion Factors for Biochemistry and Hematology
  32. Index
  33. End User License Agreement