Sheep Veterinary Practice

Kym A. Abbott

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032382883
• eBook ISBN: 9781040014790
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Veterinary Medicine

Sheep Veterinary Practice is the ideal reference for veterinarians in farm animal practice, veterinary and animal science students, agriculturalists and sheep producers. While addressing sheep health, welfare and production matters in Australia, this book covers issues of relevance in any country where sheep are raised.

Sheep veterinary specialist Professor Kym Abbott and his co-authors inform the reader of the science underpinning the occurrence of disease syndromes, giving special attention to commonly investigated problems related to nutrition, reproduction and helminthiasis. Other disease conditions of sheep are discussed in subsequent chapters; first on the basis of presenting signs in the case of lameness and sudden death – conditions in which signs can be attributed to disorders of a variety of body systems – and then on a body-systems basis. Following on from Professor Abbott's The Practice of Sheep Veterinary Medicine, a review of the systems and strategies available to improve the welfare of sheep in extensive farming systems is included, as well as discussion of pain relief, analgesia and anaesthesia for sheep.

The text is illustrated with over 150 images and photographs, the majority in full colour.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Editor
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Veterinary Services to Sheep Farms
• Chapter 2 Welfare of Sheep
• Chapter 3 Energy and Protein Nutrition of Grazing Sheep
• Chapter 4 Clinical Aspects of Trace Element and Vitamin Nutrition
• Chapter 5 Reproduction 1: Factors Affecting Fertility and Fecundity
• Chapter 6 Reproduction 2: Ultrasound Scanning for Pregnancy
• Chapter 7 Reproduction 3: Disorders of Ewes in Pregnancy and Lactation, Abortion, Prenatal and Perinatal Diseases of Lambs
• Chapter 8 Reproduction 4: Investigations of Poor Reproductive Rate in Commercial Sheep Flocks
• Chapter 9 Reproduction 5: Controlled Breeding
• Chapter 10 Diseases Caused by Nematodes and Trematodes of Sheep
• Chapter 11 Taeniid Cestodes and Sarcocystis of Sheep
• Chapter 12 Management and Diseases of Weaner Sheep
• Chapter 13 Diseases Characterised by Lameness
• Chapter 14 Diseases Characterised by Sudden Death
• Chapter 15 Diseases of the Integument and Eye
• Chapter 16 Diseases with Signs of Neurological Disturbance
• Chapter 17 Diseases of the Alimentary Tract
• Chapter 18 Diseases of the Liver
• Chapter 19 Diseases of the Urinary System
• Chapter 20 Diseases of the Blood and Lymphatic System
• Chapter 21 Diseases of the Respiratory System
• Chapter 22 Anaesthesia and Analgesia for Sheep
• Index