Backyard Poultry Medicine and Surgery

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