Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery

Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Companion website xvii
Section I: General Information
1 Laws and Regulations Governing Backyard Poultry in the UnitedStates 3
J. Bruce Nixon
2 Common Breeds of Backyard Poultry 18
Lillian Gerhardt
3 Basic Housing and Management 27
Darrin Karcher
4 Anseriforme Husbandry and Management 34
M. Scott Echols
5 Backyard Poultry Nutrition 72
Todd J. Applegate
6 Parasitic Diseases 82
Richard Gerhold
Section II: Medicine and Surgery
7 Physical Examination Anatomy and Physiology 95
Wael Khamas Josep Rutllant-Labeaga and Cheryl B.Greenacre
8 Biosecurity and Zoonotic Diseases 117
Teresa Y. Morishita Cheryl B. Greenacre and Marcy Souza
9 Avian Influenza and Viscerotropic Velogenic (Exotic) NewcastleDisease 133
Richard M. Fulton
10 Respiratory Disease 137
Richard M. Fulton
11 Musculoskeletal Diseases 145
Cheryl B. Greenacre
12 Dermatological Diseases 160
Angela Lennox
13 Reproductive Diseases 169
Eric Gingerich and Daniel Shaw
14 Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Diseases 181
Teresa Y. Morishita and Robert E. Porter Jr.
15 Cardiovascular Diseases 204
Hugues Beaufrère and Nobuko Wakamatsu
16 Soft Tissue Surgery 220
M. Scott Echols
Section III: Diagnostics Drugs and Vaccines
17 Egg Diagnostics 263
Teresa Y. Morishita Josep Rutllant-Labeaga and DarrinKarcher
18 Diagnostic Lab Sampling 275
Rocio Crespo and H.L. Shivaprasad
19 Interpretation of Laboratory Results and Values 283
Rocio Crespo and H.L. Shivaprasad
20 Regulatory Considerations for Medication Use in Poultry297
Lisa Tell and Tara Marmulak
21 Vaccination of Poultry 321
Robert E. Porter Jr.
Index 329