Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery
For Small Animal Veterinarians
Farm Animal Medicine and Surgery
For Small Animal Veterinarians
Dr Graham R. Duncanson BVSc, MSc (VetGP), DProf, FRCVS
Equine and Farm Animal Practitioner, Westover Veterinary Practice, UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Duncanson, Graham R.
Farm animal medicine and surgery : for small animal veterinarians / Graham R. Duncanson.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84593-882-6 (hb) ISBN 978-1-84593-883-3 (pb)
1. Veterinary medicine--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Animal health—Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. C.A.B. International. II. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Animal Diseases--therapy. 2. Animal Diseases--diagnosis. 3. Livestock. 4. Poultry. 5. Surgical Procedures, Operative--veterinary. SF 745]
SF745.D86 2013
636.089--dc23
2012025557
ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 882 6 (hbk)
ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 883 3 (pbk)
Commissioning editor: Sarah Hulbert
Editorial assistant: Emma McCann
Production editor: Shankari Wilford
Typeset by SPi, Pondicherry, India.
Printed and bound in the UK by MPG Printgroup Ltd.
I would like to dedicate this book to all the veterinary students that I have had the privilege of helping with their learning, starting with Shartry and Ramazan in Mombasa in 1967 and continuing through to my daughter Amelia in 2013. They have all helped me and taught me so much about life in general. I hope they will enjoy their veterinary careers as much as I have and find this book useful.
Contents
7 South American Camelid (SAC) Medicine
8 South American Camelid (SAC) Surgery
11 Domestic Poultry Medicine and Surgery
Foreword
What constitutes a large animal emergency?
Is it every farm call for the mixed practice vet with the 5% farm animal caseload? Is it the dreaded phone call to see a farrowing sow while being the duty vet on call? What about the new graduate vets panicking over the large animal out of hours rota with thoughts of caesareans, uterine prolapses, unpackings, chokes, embryotomies, fractures and ditch rescues racing through their minds? Or is it simply the 5 a.m. call to the experienced veterinarian at 10 degrees below freezing with snow expected and farmer Giles informing you that ‘The heifer in the field down yonder is off colour’ and you get there to find a blown, recumbent heifer that has been attempting to calve a dead rotten calf for the past 6 hours!
These are among some of the unbelievably impossible and truly unimaginable situations we commonly find ourselves presented with when working as veterinarians. We often feel inexperienced and ill prepared to deal with the daunting tasks that we are presented with in both a correct and effective manner, especially