Goat Medicine and Surgery

Name: Goat Medicine and Surgery
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367893422
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By David Harwood and Karin Mueller

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Summary

Goat Medicine and Surgery comprehensively covers goat health, combining medicine and surgery with essential topics like basic anatomy, common breeds, and husbandry. It addresses key diseases impacting goats worldwide, offering insights on diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, and control measures. The book is structured by body systems, presenting common differential diagnoses and recommended treatments, including emerging diseases. It caters to diverse goat-keeping systems from nomadic herding to intensive dairy production, addressing the challenges faced by all goat owners.
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This book is ideal for veterinarians in practice and training, animal scientists, agricultural advisors, and researchers focused on animal welfare, especially those working with or interested in goat health and husbandry.

This book describes key diseases encountered in general practice along with their diagnoses, treatment, prognoses, and control. Diseases and disorders are included with the common differential diagnoses followed by the specific diagnosis and recommended treatment(s).

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As textbooks go, this is one of the few that I may actually choose to read in a spare moment, not just when madly researching what could possibly be the problem when I get called to a goat farm. It contains interesting information on the background of goat farming, goat behaviour, nutrition and husbandry in the introductory section. This hardback, logically presented book will live on a handy shelf to be used on a regular basis.

- Pam Brown, mixed practice vet at Alnorthumbria Vets, Wooler, in Veterinary Record, 27 April 2019

Key features:

Covers both goat medicine and surgery
Covers basic anatomy, common breeds and husbandry
Includes new and emerging diseases

Goats are one of the most widely kept domestic animals globally, mainly as a result of the relative ease with which they can be kept and the obvious benefits provided to those who keep them. Goat Medicine and Surgery describes the key diseases that can have an impact on goat health and welfare worldwide, providing information on diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, management, and control.

Divided into chapters covering each body system
Offers the common differential diagnoses, followed by the specific diagnosis and recommended treatments
Covers a wide range of disorders, including new and emerging diseases

Modern goat keeping gives us a full spectrum of activity from nomadic tribes moving with their animals, to the range-keeping in Australia, to units fattening goat kids for meat and to intensive goat dairy production systems. Alongside these production systems are those in which goats are kept in small numbers as a hobby, as pets and at public attractions. This book deals with the diseases and challenges impacting all kinds of goats and their owners. It will be invaluable to veterinarians in practice and training, animal scientists and agricultural advisors, as well as scientists interested in animal welfare.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Praised as a rare textbook that is engaging and practical, Pam Brown, a mixed practice vet, highlights its useful background on goat behaviour, nutrition, and husbandry—areas often overlooked in vet training. The book is noted for its clear layout, informative colour images, and detailed recommended dosages for treatments not commonly licensed for goats. It is described as a logical, indispensable resource for regular use in practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367893422

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 March 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 350 Illustrations, color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 1340g

Pages: 392

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About the Author

David Harwood BVetMed, MRCVS: David qualified from the Royal Veterinary College in 1974, and worked in farm animal practice until 1983. He then joined the Ministry of Agriculture (now Defra) working for 30 years as a veterinary investigation officer, focusing on the investigation of farm animal disease and production problems by post mortem examination, laboratory testing and field investigation. He has a special interest in ruminant health and welfare, and farm animal disease surveillance. He was President of the British Cattle Veterinary Association in 2002 / 2003.He is currently working as an independent veterinary consultant, is an Honorary Veterinary surgeon to the British Goat Society and Chairman of the Goat Veterinary Society. He is an honorary reader in veterinary pathology at the University of Surrey, and a visiting lecturer at a number of UK Vet Schools on goat health and welfare.

Karin Mueller MVSc DCHP DECBHM MRCVS: Karin graduated in Germany and worked in private practice and academia in a variety of positions in the UK and New Zealand, including leading the farm animal clinical section at Cambridge veterinary school for over a decade. She completed a MVSc in Theriogenology, holds both the European and RCVS Diploma in cattle health, and is a European Specialist in bovine health management. In addition to her expertise in ruminant medicine, Karin has been involved with South American Camelids since 1999, greatly contributing to the advancement and further understanding of health and disease in these species. She was awarded the Felipe Benevides Trophy in recognition of her contributions to the camelid industry in 2012. Karin regularly speaks at national and international conferences and has authored numerous publications in the fields of bovine, caprine and camelid medicine. She is particularly interested in reproduction, medicine, and soft tissue surgery. Karin is now a Senior Lecturer in reproduction and animal husbandry at Liverpool University, and works as a consultant in camelid and bovine medicine.