Backyard poultry medicine and surgery: a guide for veterinary practitioners

"Offers a comprehensive guide to diagnosing and treating backyard poultry. Presents practical information on husbandry, medicine, and surgery. Written from an individual medicine perspective to aid practitioners in developing a diagnostic and treatment plan for the individual or small flock of poultry. Expands significantly on the first edition, with many expanded chapters and seven brand-new chapters. Includes new chapters covering toxicology, euthanasia, gross pathology, behavior, game bird medicine, vaccinations, and drugs. Provides more color photographs to aid in breed and disease identification"--

Laws and Regulations Governing Backyard Poultry in the US / Bruce Nixon -- Common Breeds of Backyard Poultry / Lillian Gerhardt and Cheryl Greenacre -- Chicken and Turkey Husbandry and Management / Darrin Karcher -- Anseriforme Husbandry and Management / Scott Echols -- Biosecurity / Teresa Morishita and Theodore Derksen -- Backyard Poultry Nutrition / Todd Applegate and Justin Fowler -- Anatomy and Physiology / Josep Rutllant-Labeaga and Wael Khamas -- Physical Examination / Cheryl Greenacre -- Radiographic Evaluation of Normal and Common Diseases / John Mattoon, Marcie Logsdon, and Ashley Hanna -- Zoonotic Diseases / Marcy Souza -- Parasitic Diseases / Richard Gerhold -- Respiratory Diseases / Richard Fulton -- Avian Influenza and Viscerotropic Velogenic (Exotic) Newcastle Disease / Richard Fulton -- Musculoskeletal Diseases / Cheryl Greenacre -- Dermatological Diseases / Angela Lennox and Cheryl Greenacre -- Reproductive Diseases / Eric Gingerich and Daniel Shaw -- Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases / Teresa Morishita and Robert Porter

Cardiovascular Diseases / Hugues Beaufrere and Marina Brash -- Emergency Medicine and Critical Care / Jennifer Graham and Elizabeth Rozanski…