Sheep, Goat, and Cervid Medicine, 3rd Edition

Your Essential Guide to Sheep, Goat, and Cervid Medicine, 3rd Edition

This book is a highly authoritative yet easy-to-read guide that covers the latest advances in the field, including diseases, medical treatment, surgery, pain management, theriogenology, and nutrition. Selected as a Doody’s Core Titles® 2024, this comprehensive reference is ideal for veterinarians and owners of sheep and goats. It provides clear instructions and hundreds of full-color photographs that guide you step by step through common procedures.

Key Features

• Expanded Coverage: New to this edition is coverage of cervids, reflecting the growing interest in deer and elk.
• Consistent Organization: The clear writing style and consistent organization make the book easy to understand and use, with disease chapters including pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
• Surgical Procedures: Superbly illustrated surgical procedures clearly demonstrate the steps to follow in performing medical and reproductive surgery.
• Diverse Contributors: Diverse, expert contributors include the most experienced authorities, each providing current information on the care of valuable breeding stock as well as pets.
• Useful Appendixes: Useful appendixes, now including veterinary feed directives, offer convenient access to information on drugs and drug dosages, fluid therapy, and normal values and conversions.
• Practical Format: The consistent, logical format in each body systems chapter makes information easy to find by beginning with physical examination and diagnostic procedures, followed by discussions of common diseases that involve the system.
• Behavioral Differences: The book provides an explanation of the differences in normal behavior between sheep and goats, showing how they are not the same and require different methods of treatment.
• Anesthesia and Pain Management: A new anesthesia and pain management chapter includes a new section on pain management strategies, reflecting the emphasis on controlling pain in small ruminants.
• Enhanced eBook: A new companion website offers an online version of the book, making it easy to search the entire book electronically.