BACKYARD POULTRY MEDICINE AND SURGERY An expanded edition that explains the diagnosis and treatment of backyard poultry
You can look to Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery, Second Edition for practical veterinary information on the treatment of poultry. You’ll find six new chapters covering radiology, toxicology, euthanasia, gross pathology, behavior, and emergency medicine. The book is written by some of the most respected specialists in a broad range of fields.
With many original chapters also significantly expanded, the book provides a complete guide to all aspects of husbandry, medicine, and surgery for poultry. Diseases are organized by body systems to aid in developing a diagnosis. This book supports your work as a practitioner, whether you treat birds occasionally or regularly.
Review information on the topics of husbandry, medicine, and surgery Gain guidance on developing a diagnostic or treatment plan for the individual or small flock of poultry Choose appropriate doses of labeled and extra-label drugs Find new chapters on emergency medicine, toxicology, euthanasia, gross pathology, normal and abnormal radiographic findings, and other key topics Use color photographs to aid in breed identification and poultry disease diagnoses View photographs, videos, and linked references and websites on an accompanying website
This is an essential and comprehensive guide providing enhanced and updated information to support all types of practitioners—from the dedicated avian veterinarian to those who rarely treat these species.
Contributors, ix Foreword, xi Preface, xiii Acknowledgments, xv Companion website, xvii Section 1: General Care Chapter 1 - Laws and Regulations Governing Backyard Poultry in the US Bruce Nixon Chapter 2 - Common Breeds of Backyard Poultry Lillian Gerhardt and Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 3 - Chicken and Turkey Husbandry and Management Darrin Karcher Chapter 4 - Anseriforme Husbandry and Management Scott Echols Chapter 5 – Biosecurity Teresa Morishita and Theodore Derksen Chapter 6 - Backyard Poultry Nutrition Todd Applegate and Justin Fowler Section 2: Initial Examinations Chapter 7 - Anatomy, and Physiology Josep Rutllant-Labeaga and Wael Khamas Chapter 8 - Physical Examination Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 9 - Radiographic Evaluation of Normal and Common Diseases John Mattoon, Marcie Logsdon, and Ashley Hanna Section 3: Diseases Chapter 10 - Zoonotic Diseases Marcy Souza Chapter 11 - Parasitic Diseases Richard Gerhold Chapter 12 - Respiratory Diseases Richard Fulton Chapter 13 - Avian Influenza and Viscerotropic Velogenic (Exotic) Newcastle Disease Richard Fulton Chapter 14 - Musculoskeletal Diseases Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 15 - Dermatological Diseases Angela Lennox and Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 16 - Reproductive Diseases Eric Gingerich and Daniel Shaw Chapter 17 - Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases Teresa Morishita and Robert Porter Chapter 18 - Cardiovascular Diseases Hugues Beaufrere and Marina Brash Section 4: Specialized Care and Surgery Chapter 19 - Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Jennifer Graham and Elizabeth Rozanski Chapter 20 - Common Toxicoses Marieke Rosenbaum and Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 21 - Soft Tissue Surgery Scott Echols Chapter 22 – Behavior Christine Calder and Julie Albright Section 5: Diagnosis of Disease Chapter 23 - Euthanasia of Companion Poultry Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 24 - Egg Diagnostics Teresa Morishita, Josep Rutllant-Labeaga, Darrin Karcher Chapter 25 - How to Perform a Necropsy Jarra Jagne and Elizabeth Buckles Chapter 26 - Diagnostic Laboratory Sampling Rocio Crespo and H.L. Shivaprasad Chapter 27 - Interpretation of Laboratory Results and Values Rocio Crespo and H.L. Shivaprasad Section 6: Treatment and Prevention of Disease Chapter 28 - Regulatory Considerations for Medication Use in Poultry Lisa Tell and Krysta Martin Chapter 29 - Commonly Used Medications Cheryl Greenacre Chapter 30 - Vaccination of Poultry Robert Porter Index
The editors CHERYL B. GREENACRE, DVM, DABVP (Avian), DABVP (ECM), is Professor and Section Head of Avian and Zoological Medicine at the University of Tennessee’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. TERESA Y. MORISHITA, DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACPV, is Professor of Poultry Medicine & Food Safety at Western University of Health Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine in Pomona, California, USA.
Reviews for Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery: A Guide for Veterinary Practitioners
“As welcomed, much needed, and excellent as the 1st edition was, the second truly improves on a good thing. This new edition has been expanded to almost twice the size of the original textbook with careful reorganization, outstanding additions, and further development of a well-planned resource text....The most significant change is the addition of six brilliant new chapters on the topics of radiology, toxicology, necropsy procedures, emergency and critical care, behavior, and euthanasia. These well-written and thorough chapters fill in any gaps the 1st edition missed and provide practitioners with information in areas beyond basic clinical medicine.” -Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine 40 (2022) 80
