Goat Medicine

Download or read book Goat Medicine written by Mary C. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and expanded, Goat Medicine, Second Edition includes discussions on new diseases ranging from bovine spongiform encephalopathy to floppy kid disease as well as major updates on important diseases such as scrapie, mycoplasmosis, paratuberculosis, and urolithiasis. Information has also been added on management of transgenic goats and organic goat production. The text begins by outlining fundamentals of goat practice and moves on to systems-based coverage of the goat. Each chapter provides clinical anatomy and physiology of every system alongside information on relevant clinical signs, differential diagnosis, and system-specific disease.