Farm Animal Genetic Resources (BSAS Publication, #30)
Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat
While covering all the major areas of internal medicine of the dog and cat, this book emphasizes the more common disorders. The book is organized by body system, and each chapter is structured in a consistent way, providing the definition of each disorder, its causes, clinical features, differential diagnoses, diagnosis, and management options. The
Cattle farming is under considerable public pressure for creating possible health risks (e.g. BSE), for inadequate attention to animal welfare and for having adverse affects on the environment. This book outlines the latest methods of farming with dairy and beef cattle, particularly those that provide for optimum production combined with appropriate consideration of the animal's welfare. Topics covered include housing requirements, cattle diseases, reproduction, nutrition, milk quality and grazi...
Pig Health
by John Carr, Shih-Ping Chen, Joseph F. Connor, Roy Kirkwood, and Joaquim Segales
Maintaining the health of pigs is vital in pig farming and production. This new book written by experts from around the world focuses on the health of pigs, first with coverage of the disorders of pigs organised by clinical sign and body system. The book explores environmental medicine and then health maintenance. Treatment options are discussed, emphasizing a reduction in antimicrobial use and an increased awareness of a holistic approach to treatment. The book includes over 1,500 high-quality...
Animals, Health, and Society (CRC One Health One Welfare)
by Craig Stephen
CHOICE Recommended title 2022 This timely book reframes the historic narrative of people, animals, and nature as risks to each other, to one where we think about health as a shared capacity. This new narrative promotes the positive contributions made to health across species and generations and addresses growing calls to shift from a reactive to proactive approach in One Health. Editor Craig Stephen takes the reader on a tour of the situations wherein we can all, regardless of our job descrip...
In an area of growing interest to veterinarians, the authors have produced a rapid reference to the practical clinical aspects of small animal dentistry. The text is arranged to reflect the clinician's thinking and approach to problems: background information, clinical relevance, key points, differential diagnoses, diagnostic tests, and management.
This updated and revised edition provides an overview of the anatomy and physiology of reproduction in farm animals, emphasizing the application of scientific principles in practical reproduction management.
Biotechnologies Applied to Animal Reproduction
This comprehensive volume focuses on recent trends and new technologies used in the management of reproduction in major farm animals, focusing on both males and females of bovine, equine, and porcine species. With chapters written by scientists who specialize in their respective topics, the volume presents a selection of different technologies that have been developed to assure reproductive success by improving reproductive efficiency, generating germplasm banks, and maintaining genetic dive...
This book will provide a core text for veterinary nursing undergraduate students for their dissertation/ preparation for research/ undergraduate projects. There is currently no available veterinary nursing text available and the students are reliant on human nursing texts or generic research texts - neither of which are entirely appropriate for this niche sector. The book will also bridge the gap between veterinary nurses/technicians that qualified by the traditional Diploma route by allowing th...
Broodmare Reproduction for the Equine Practitioner (Equine Made Easy)
by William B. Ley
A concise and liberally illustrated working guide on Broodmare health and breeding management for veterinarians, veterinary students and breeders. The presentation includes all of the clinical procedures and assessments necessary for maintaining the health and breeding soundness of the Broodmare. This handy reference covers the use of ultrasonography for diagnosis and monitoring of the mare, cytologic studies essential to diagnosis, normal and abnormal reproductive anatomy, culturing techniques...
Management and Welfare of Farm Animals – The UFAW Farm Handbook 5e (UFAW Animal Welfare, #11)
Through successive editions, Management and Welfare of Farm Animals has gained international recognition as a classic introductory textbook for students of agriculture and veterinary science. Conceived by the Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW), the book has always sought to promote the humane treatment of livestock within the practical business context of modern farming. Now fully revised and updated, this fifth edition remains the most comprehensive and accessible guide available...
The Pig Farmer's Veterinary Book - A Complete Guide to the Farm Treatment and Control of Pig Diseases
by Norman Barron
This book is an essential reference source covering the chemical elements that are nutrients for plants or grazing animals. It deals with the concentrations and transformations of these elements in soils, grassland plants, and ruminant animals, particularly cattle and sheep. For each element, the following data are given: forms occurring in soil, factors that affect availability and concentration, uptake and distribution in grassland plants, role in animal nutrition, amounts and forms excreted b...
Reproductive Efficiency of Female Cattle in the Tropic
by Igor Alba Espinosa and Luis Orlando Alba G�mez
Atlas of Feline Anatomy For Veterinarians
by Lola C. Hudson and William Hamilton
Presenting more than 266 full color anatomic drawings arranged by organ system, this book is dedicated exclusively to feline anatomy with emphasis on those areas of anatomy that are frequently encountered in clinical practice. It includes a highly detailed chapter on special senses which collects and organizes difficult to find information for quick access. Nomenclature is from Nomina Anitomica Veterinaria so that the feline anatomy is in line with that used in other textbooks of veterinary anat...
Unlike any other book, Avian Cognition thoroughly examines avian intelligence, behavior, and individuality. Preferences, choices, motivation, and habits of species, flocks, and individual birds are discussed and compared. This book investigates who birds are and why they do what they do. Daily, seasonal, and play activities, creativity, reasoning abilities, problem-solving skills, social interaction, life stages, and communication patterns are described, and a distinction is made between vocaliz...
Veterinary Dentistry (Veterinary Self-Assessment Color Review)
by Frank Verstraete and Anson J. Tsugawa
This new edition in the established and well-respected series Veterinary Self-Assessment Color Reviews covers all aspects of veterinary dentistry. Each case consists of one or more questions, illustrated by stimulating visual material including imaging and color clinical photographs. Written by two well-respected experts in the field, this new edition of a bestseller has been completely updated and includes more than 50 new cases. The 228 cases appear in random order, just as they would in pract...
Paradigms in Pig Science (University of Nottingham Easter School, v. 62)
These proceedings are based on the 62nd Easter School held at the University of Nottingham in 2007. It brings together an extremely diverse range of topics, all presented by recognised global experts in their field. The book will appeal to anybody who is involved in pig science and practice.
Quality Milk Production and Processing Technology
by D.K. Thompkinson & Latha Sabikhi
When studying the effects of parasites on natural populations, the avian haematozoa fulfills many of the specifications of an ideal model. Featuring a multitude of tables and illustrations, Avian Malaria Parasites and Other Haemosporidia summarizes more than a century of research on bird haemosporidians. For a long time, bird blood parasites served as important models in studying human diseases. Although now largely replaced, the wealth of data and research remain. With chapters addressing life...