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| Preface to First Edition | |
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| Preface to Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Author's Note | |
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| Female Infertility | |
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| The normal female goat | |
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| Investigation of female infertility | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Assessment of individual doe | |
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| The four main individual infertility problems | |
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| Pregnancy diagnosis | |
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| Use of prostaglandins | |
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| Control of the breeding season | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Abortion | |
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| Initial advice to owners | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Laboratory investigation | |
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| Infectious causes | |
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| Non-infectious causes | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Male Infertility | |
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| Investigation of male infertility | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Assessment of individual buck | |
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| Individual buck problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Preparturient Problems | |
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| Preparturient problems | |
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| Postparturient problems | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Weak Kids | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Prematurity/low birth weight | |
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| Birth injury | |
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| Intrauterine malnutrition | |
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| Postnatal malnutrition | |
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| Congenital defects | |
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| Postnatal infections | |
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| Floppy kid syndrome | |
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| Exposure | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Lameness in Adult Goats | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Non-infectious diseases of the foot | |
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| Infectious diseases of the foot | |
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| Lameness above the foot | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Lameness in Kids | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Congenital abnormalities | |
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| Infections | |
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| Nutritional causes | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Chronic Weight Loss | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Primary nutritional deficiency | |
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| Inability to utilise available foodstuffs | |
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| Unwillingness to utilise available footstuffs | |
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| Inability to increase feed intake to match production demands | |
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| Interference with absorption of nutrients/loss of nutrients | |
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| Interference with rumen/intestinal mobility | |
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| Presence of chronic disorders | |
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| Pruritic conditions | |
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| Further reading | |
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| External Swellings | |
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| Throat swellings | |
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| Other swellings around the head and neck | |
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| Body swellings | |
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| Leg swellings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Skin Disease | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Examination of skin | |
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| Laboratory investigation | |
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| Treatment of external parasites | |
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| Pruritic skin disease | |
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| Non-pruritic skin disease | |
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| Skin disease presenting as swellings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Nervous Diseases | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Laboratory investigation | |
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| Postmortem examination | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Neonatal kids | |
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| Kids up to 1 month old | |
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| Kids 2 to 7 months old | |
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| Kids 7 months to adult | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Diseases of the Mammary Gland | |
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| Mastitis | |
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| The milking machine and mastitis | |
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| Preventing and controlling mastitis | |
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| 'Hard udder' | |
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| Udder oedema | |
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| Trauma to the udder | |
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| Abscesses | |
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| Fibrous scar tissue | |
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| Pustular dermatitis of the udder | |
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| Fly bites | |
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| Tumours | |
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| Orf | |
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| Maiden milkers | |
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| 'Witch's milk' | |
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| Milking males (gynaecomastia) | |
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| Milk problems | |
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| Self-sucking | |
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| Teat abnormalities | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Diarrhoea | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Laboratory investigation | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Birth to 4 weeks | |
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| From 4 to 12 weeks | |
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| Over 12 weeks | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Colic | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Further investigations | |
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| Examination of rumen contents | |
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| Clinical signs of colic | |
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| Colic in adult goats | |
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| Diarrhoea/enteritis | |
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| Indigestion (ruminal atony) | |
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| Acute impaction of the rumen (acidosis) | |
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| Ruminal tympany | |
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| Enterotoxaemia (Clostridium perfringens type D; pulpy kidney disease) | |
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| Abomasal ulceration | |
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| Left-sided displacement of the abomasum | |
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| Urolithiasis | |
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| Liver disease | |
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| Toxic minerals | |
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| Fertiliser ingestion | |
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| Post kidding problems | |
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| Peritonitis | |
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| Cystitis | |
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| Leiomyoma | |
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| Plant posioning | |
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| Colic in kids | |
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| Diarrhoea | |
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| Abomasal bloat | |
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| Mesenteric torsion | |
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| Coccidiosis | |
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| Ruminal bloat | |
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| Urolithiasis | |
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| Visceral cysticercosis | |
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| Plant poisoning | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Abdominal Distension | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Further investigations | |
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| Adult goats | |
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| Ruminal distension | |
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| Abomasal distension | |
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| Distension related to pregnancy and the reproductive tract | |
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| Ventral hernia | |
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| Ascites | |
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| Abdominal tumours | |
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| Ruptured bladder (urolithiasis) | |
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| Kids from birth to 1 week old | |
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| Prematurity | |
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| Congenital abnormalities | |
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| High alimentary tract obstruction | |
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| Older kids | |
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| Abomasal bloat | |
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| Ruminal bloat | |
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| Constipation | |
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| Mesenteric torsion | |
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| 'Pot belly' | |
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| Respiratory Disease | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Infections respiratory disease | |
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| Airway obstruction | |
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| Inhalation pneumonia | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Heat stress | |
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| Allergic alveolitis | |
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| Neoplasia | |
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| Other conditions producing respiratory signs | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Anaemia | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Clinical examination | |
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| Laboratory investigation | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Helminthiasis | |
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| Protozoal causes | |
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| Bacterial causes | |
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| Plant poisoning | |
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| External parasites | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Cow colostrum | |
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| Mineral deficiencies | |
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| Mineral poisoning | |
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| Protein deficiency | |
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| Chronic disease | |
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| Congenital disease | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Sudden Death | |
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| Initial assessment | |
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| Examination of carcase | |
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| Postmortem examination | |
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| Sudden death in kids | |
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| Sudden death in adult goats | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Eye Disease | |
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| Infectious keratoconjunctivitis | |
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| Foreign bodies | |
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| Trauma | |
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| Entropion | |
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| Photosensitisation | |
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| Blindness | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Plant Poisoning | |
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| Public health considerations | |
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| Treatment of plant poisoning | |
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| Specific plant poisoning | |
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| Plants affecting milk | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Anaesthesia | |
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| Initial clinical examination | |
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| General anaesthesia | |
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| Local anaesthetics | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Disbudding and Dehorning | |
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| Anatomy | |
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| Disbudding of kids | |
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| Descenting of kids | |
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| Dehorning | |
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| Descenting of adult goats | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Surgical Techniques | |
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| Castration | |
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| Surgical treatment of obstructive urolithiasis | |
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| Caesarian section | |
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| Exploratory laparotomy to examine the uterus and ovaries | |
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| Mastectomy | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Normal Goat | |
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| Physiological values | |
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| Weight | |
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| Haematology | |
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| Urinalysis | |
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| Cerebrospinal fluid | |
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| Biochemistry | |
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| Reproductive data | |
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| Drug Dosages | |
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| Administration of drugs | |
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| Sedatives and anaesthetics | |
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| Analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs | |
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| Anthelmintics | |
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| Drugs for flukes (trematodes) | |
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| Drugs for tapeworms (cestodes) | |
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| Antibiotics | |
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| Anticonvulsants | |
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| Coccidiosis | |
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| Drugs acting on the digestive tract | |
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| External parasites | |
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| Fertility | |
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| Fungal treatments | |
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| Respiratory disease | |
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| Diagnostic Reference Charts | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Index | |