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Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling

A Practical Handbook
By C. B. Chastain
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Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling by C. B. Chastain is a practical guide focusing on essential techniques for the safe and effective handling of large animals. Designed as a portable and durable resource, it supports learning and revision during veterinary placements across diverse environments, including farms, laboratories, and riding schools. Key topics include handler and animal safety, sanitation, approaches to capture, routine and medical procedure handling, and restraint equipment usage. A companion website enhances learning with self-assessment questions and answers.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This book is essential for undergraduate veterinary students undertaking EMS rotations and is also valuable for practising veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and assistants. It addresses species commonly encountered in farm, equine, and laboratory settings, making it a versatile resource for animal handling professionals.

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This instructional book provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal means of learning, as well as a convenient way to refresh on how to strive for safety and efficacy in animal handling techniques. It is ideal for use during veterinary placements in all settings from farm to laboratory, to riding school.

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This concise instructional guide condenses the most important aspects of large animal handling. It provides a portable, durable, beside-the-animal means of learning, as well as a convenient way to refresh on how to strive for safety and efficacy in animal handling techniques. It is ideal for use during veterinary placements in all settings from farm to laboratory, to riding school. The text covers:

  • Handler safety
  • Animal safety
  • Sanitation
  • Approach and capture
  • Routine handling and release procedures
  • Handling for medical procedures
  • Use and supply sources of restraint equipment

A Companion Website provides additional self-assessment questions and answers to aid learning.

Concise Textbook of Large Animal Handling is important reading for undergraduate veterinary students on EMS rotations, as well as practising veterinarians, technicians, and assistants. The book covers species encountered in farm, equine, and laboratory settings.

You can hear the author, C. B. Chastain, discuss the topics covered in this book on his weekly podcast Better Animal Handling.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367628093

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 June 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 62 Tables, color; 72 Line drawings, color; 61 Halftones, color; 133 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 535g

Pages: 300

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C. B. Chastain Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

C.B. Chastain is a professor emeritus and adjunct professor of veterinary medicine and former Section Head of Small Animal Medicine and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Missouri. He also has been on faculty at Iowa State University and Louisiana State University. In addition to being a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine, he has authored journal articles, book chapters in veterinary medical and allied publications, and textbooks on clinical endocrinology and animal handling and physical restraint.

Prior to entering academic veterinary medicine, he was a horse wrangler for a horseback-riding stable and a licensed guide in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado; worked in mixed animal veterinary medical practices in Missouri, Illinois, and New Mexico; and a captain in the U.S. Air Force Veterinary Corps. He has handled, restrained, and trained a variety of animals in differing environments and taught aspects of animal handling for more than 40 years at the undergraduate and professional school levels. Currently, he is a professor and consultant for Veterinary Online Programs at the University of Missouri.

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