Sheep Veterinary Practice

Sheep Veterinary Practice is the ideal reference for veterinarians in farm animal practice, veterinary and animal science students, agriculturalists and sheep producers. While addressing sheep health, welfare and production matters in Australia, this book covers issues of relevance in any country where sheep are raised.

Sheep veterinary specialist Professor Kym Abbott and his co-authors inform the reader of the science underpinning the occurrence of disease syndromes, giving special attention to commonly investigated problems related to nutrition, reproduction and helminthiasis. Other disease conditions of sheep are discussed in subsequent chapters; first on the basis of presenting signs in the case of lameness and sudden death – conditions in which signs can be attributed to disorders of a variety of body systems – and then on a body-systems basis. Following on from Professor Abbott's　The Practice of Sheep Veterinary Medicine, a review of the systems and strategies available to improve the welfare of sheep in extensive farming systems is included, as well as discussion of pain relief, analgesia and anaesthesia for sheep.

The text is illustrated with over 150 images and photographs, the majority in full colour.

Table of Contents:

1. Veterinary services to sheep farms - Kym Abbott

2. Welfare of sheep - Andrew Fisher and Natalie Roadknight

3. Energy and protein nutrition of grazing sheep - Philip Hynd

4. Clinical aspects of trace element and vitamin nutrition - Kym Abbott

5. Reproduction 1: Factors affecting fertility and fecundity - Kym Abbott

6. Reproduction 2: Ultrasound scanning for pregnancy - Tristan Jubb

7. Reproduction 3: Disorders of ewes in pregnancy and lactation, abortion, prenatal and perinatal diseases of lambs - Caroline Jacobson, Tom Clune, Shane Besier, Stuart Barber, and Kym Abbott

8. Reproduction 4: Investigations of poor reproductive rate in commercial sheep flocks - Tristan Jubb

9. Reproduction 5: Controlled breeding - Simon de Graaf

10. Diseases caused by nematodes and trematodes of sheep - John Larsen

11. Taeniid cestodes and sarcocystis of sheep - David Jenkins

12. Management and diseases of weaner sheep - Kym Abbott

13. Diseases characterised by lameness - Kym Abbott

14. Diseases characterised by sudden death - Kym Abbott

15. Diseases of the integument and eye - Kym Abbott

16. Diseases with signs of neurological disturbance - Kym Abbott

17. Diseases of the alimentary tract - Kym Abbott

18. Diseases of the liver - Kym Abbott

19. Diseases of the urinary system - Kym Abbott

20. Diseases of the blood and lymphatic system - Kym Abbott

21. Diseases of the respiratory system - Kym Abbott

22. Anaesthesia and analgesia for sheep - Gabrielle Musk