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.Die 2. Auflage von Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery ist eine sorgfältige Überarbeitung und Erweiterung der 1. Auflage und bietet praktische Informationen für Veterinärmediziner, die Geflügeltiere und kleinere Geflügelbestände behandeln. Das Buch ist ein umfassender Leitfaden zu sämtlichen Aspekten der Haltung, medizinischen und chirurgischen Betreuung von Geflügel in Hinterhofhaltung. Sieben neue Kapitel befassen sich mit den Bereichen Toxikologie, Euthanasie, Pathologie, Verhalten, medizinische Versorgung von Jagdvögeln, Impfung und Medikation. Das Referenzwerk ist zum schnellen Nachschlagen nach Organsystem strukturiert und untersützt Veterinärmediziner, die regelmäßig oder gelegentlich Geflügeltiere behandeln, bei Diagnose und Management von Hühnern in Hinterhofhaltung.

Mehr als 400 Farbfotos helfen bei der Identifizierung von Rassen und Diagnostik. Der klinische Fokus unterstützt Veterinärmediziner in jeder Hinsicht beim Erstellen von Diagnose- und Behandlungsplänen. Die Kapitel stammen von führenden Experten für Vogelmedizin und Vogelchirurgie. Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery ist ein Muss für jeden Veterinärmediziner, der gelegentlich oder regelmäßig Geflügeltiere in Hinterhofhaltung betreut.
- Umfassender Leitfaden für die Diagnose und Behandlung von Geflügeltieren in Hinterhofhaltung.
- Bietet praktische Informationen zu Haltung, medizinischer und chirurgischer Behandlung.
- Folgt einem individualmedizinischen Ansatz und unterstützt Praktiker beim Erstellen von Diagnose- und Behandlungsplänen für einzelne Tiere oder kleine Tierbestände.
- Die neue Auflage wurde erheblich erweitert, viele Kapitel um neue Inhalte sowie sieben neue Kapitel.
- Neue Kapitel behandeln die Themenkomplexe Toxikologie, Euthanasie, Pathologie, Verhalten, medizinische Versorgung von Jagdvögeln, Impfung und Medikation.
- Enthält noch mehr Farbfotos, um Rasse und Erkrankung noch besser identifizieren zu können.
- Begleitende Website.

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

"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

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.

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.