Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery. Graham R Duncanson

      Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery

      For Small Animal Veterinarians

      Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery

      For Small Animal Veterinarians

       Dr Graham R. Duncanson BVSc, MSc (VetGP), DProf, FRCVS

       Equine and Farm Animal Practitioner, Westover Veterinary Practice, UK

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      © G.R. Duncanson 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronically, mechanically, by photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owners.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, London, UK.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Duncanson, Graham R.

      Farm animal medicine and surgery : for small animal veterinarians / Graham R. Duncanson.

      p. ; cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-1-84593-882-6 (hb) ISBN 978-1-84593-883-3 (pb)

      1. Veterinary medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Animal health—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. C.A.B. International. II. Title.

      [DNLM: 1. Animal Diseases--therapy. 2. Animal Diseases--diagnosis. 3. Livestock. 4. Poultry. 5. Surgical Procedures, Operative--veterinary. SF 745]

      SF745.D86 2013

      636.089--dc23

      2012025557

      ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 882 6 (hbk)

      ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 883 3 (pbk)

      Commissioning editor: Sarah Hulbert

      Editorial assistant: Emma McCann

      Production editor: Shankari Wilford

      Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India.

      Printed and bound in the UK by MPG Printgroup Ltd.

      I would like to dedicate this book to all the veterinary students that I have had the privilege of helping with their learning, starting with Shartry and Ramazan in Mombasa in 1967 and continuing through to my daughter Amelia in 2013. They have all helped me and taught me so much about life in general. I hope they will enjoy their veterinary careers as much as I have and find this book useful.

      Contents

       Foreword

       Abbreviations

       Introduction

       1 Veterinary Equipment

       2 Veterinary Medicines

       3 Cattle Medicine

       4 Cattle Surgery

       5 Sheep and Goat Medicine

       6 Sheep and Goat Surgery

       7 South American Camelid (SAC) Medicine

       8 South American Camelid (SAC) Surgery

       9 Pig Medicine

       10 Pig Surgery

       11 Domestic Poultry Medicine and Surgery

       12 Notifiable Diseases

       13 Zoonotic Diseases

       Glossary

       References

       Index

       The colour plates

      Foreword

      What constitutes a large animal emergency?

      Is it every farm call for the mixed practice vet with the 5% farm animal caseload? Is it the dreaded phone call to see a farrowing sow while being the duty vet on call? What about the new graduate vets panicking over the large animal out of hours rota with thoughts of caesareans, uterine prolapses, unpackings, chokes, embryotomies, fractures and ditch rescues racing through their minds? Or is it simply the 5 a.m. call to the experienced veterinarian at 10 degrees below freezing with snow expected and farmer Giles informing you that ‘The heifer in the field down yonder is off colour’ and you get there to find a blown, recumbent heifer that has been attempting to calve a dead rotten calf for the past 6 hours!

      These are among some of the unbelievably impossible and truly unimaginable situations we commonly find ourselves presented with when working as veterinarians. We often feel inexperienced and ill prepared to deal with the daunting tasks that we are presented with in both a correct and effective manner, especially