Deer Veterinary Medicine

Aiden P. Foster

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781394221349
• eBook ISBN: 9781394221363
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Veterinary Medicine

A guide to the care and treatment of deer for veterinary professionals

Deer Veterinary Medicine is an essential reference for veterinary professionals preparing for deer encounters. Rooted in extensive field experience, the contributions from a range of authors provide details of common conditions across multiple deer species and the knowledge required by the veterinary professionals who deal with them. The book considers the different contexts where deer are encountered, including wild populations, and deer held in captivity (as farm, park and zoo collections).

The chapters topics range from handling and sedating deer through to nutrition and postmortem examination and pathology. They cover key body systems including the gut, nervous, ocular and respiratory systems, and the skin.

Deer Veterinary Medicine readers will also find:

• Detailed consideration of the use of sedation in deer, providing analgesia and methods of euthanasia.
• Coverage of species including red, roe, fallow, water deer, Reeves' muntjac, reindeer and white-tailed deer.
• Coverage of veterinary interventions for reproductive purposes.
• Detailed consideration of the management of parasitic diseases.
• Detailed consideration of notifiable (including TB and CWD) and zoonotic diseases (including E. coli and cryptosporidiosis).
• A detailed drug formulary including, where available, evidence from published studies.

Edited by the past president of the British Deer Veterinary Association (BDVA) this book is a fitting successor to Management and Diseases of Deer: A Handbook for Veterinary Surgeons, last published in 1994 by the Veterinary Deer Society (now the BDVA). Synthesizing key contributions by a range of experts from Europe and the US, the new Deer Veterinary Medicine is ideal for veterinarians, veterinary surgeons and veterinary students, as well as readers interested in the management of captive and wild deer.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of Tables
• List of Illustrations/Images
• 1 Introduction to Cervids
• 2 Managing, Handling and Moving Deer
• 3 Analgesia, euthanasia, restraint and sedation in deer
• 4 Surgical Interventions and Imaging Methods in Deer
• 5 Deer in Deer Parks
• 6 An Overview of Red Deer Farming in the United Kingdom
• 7 Wild Deer in the UK (Health and Welfare, Deer-Vehicle Collisions and Disease Surveillance)
• 8 Venison in the United Kingdom
• 9 Rehabilitation of Deer
• 10 Antlers
• 11 Reproduction in Deer
• 12 Nutrition of Deer
• 13 Notifiable Diseases in Deer – Chronic Wasting Disease
• 14 Notifiable Diseases in Deer – Mycobacterium bovis Infection
• 15 Serological Methods and Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Deer
• 16 Notifiable Diseases in Deer
• 17 Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Deer
• 18 Gastrointestinal Diseases in Deer – Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis and Johne’s Disease
• 19 Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Parasite Diseases in Deer
• 20 Gastrointestinal Diseases in Deer
• 21 Zoonotic Agents and Deer (Cryptosporidiosis, Salmonellosis, Toxoplasmosis and SARS-CoV-2)
• 22 Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Deer
• 23 Neurological Diseases in Deer
• 24 Respiratory Parasite Diseases in Deer
• 25 Respiratory Diseases in Deer – Bacterial, Fungal and Viral
• 26 Skin Diseases in Deer
• 27 Deer Ophthalmology – A Practical Approach to Deer Ophthalmic Examination
• 28 Lameness and Hoof Problems in Deer
• 29 Vector-borne Infections in Deer – Threat to Deer Health and Role of Deer in Transmission of Diseases of Veterinary and Medical Importance
• 30 Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)
• 31 Reindeer
• 32 An Overview of Diseases of Farmed White-tailed Deer
• 33 Anatomical Pathology and Deer – A Guide to Postmortem Examination and Pathology
• 34 Cervine Formulary
• Index
• EULA