Equine Stud Farm Medicine & Surgery E-Book (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Equine Stud Farm Medicine and Surgery 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
PREFACE 8
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 10
DEDICATION 12
CHAPTER 1. DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A BREEDING FARM 14
FEATURES OF SUCCESSFUL FARM DESIGN 15
SITE SELECTION 15
ROADS AND ACCESS 17
FENCING 19
PASTURES AND PADDOCKS 23
Round yards and exercise yards 24
BARNS 24
RECORD-KEEPING 31
REFERENCES 32
CHAPTER 2. FEEDING AND EXERCISE 34
STALLIONS 34
MARES 35
FOALS AND WEANLINGS 36
REFERENCES 37
CHAPTER 3. ROUTINE STUD MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES 38
GENERAL PROCEDURES 38
PARASITIC DISEASES 44
PARASITE CONTROL STRATEGIES IN YOUNG HORSES 50
A RATIONAL APPROACH TO PARASITE CONTROL 51
CONTRACEPTION 54
REFERENCES 54
CHAPTER 4. THE STALLION 56
ANATOMY 56
DESCENT OF THE TESTICLES11,12 61
PUBERTY 62
PHYSIOLOGY OF SPERM PRODUCTION 63
BREEDING SOUNDNESS EXAMINATION 68
SPECIFIC EXAMINATION OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA 70
EXAMINATION OF INTERNAL GENITALIA 72
ACCESSORY SEX GLANDS 73
ULTRASONOGRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF STALLION GENITALIA 74
SEMEN COLLECTION 75
SEMEN EXAMINATION 78
SEMEN HANDLING AND STORAGE 84
THE STALLION BOOK 89
TEASING THE STALLION 90
VENEREAL (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED) DISEASES 91
CONGENITAL AND ACQUIRED DISORDERS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 94
NEOPLASMS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS 113
OTHER CONDITIONS THAT LIMIT FERTILITY 118
REFERENCES 121
CHAPTER 5. THE MARE 126
REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT 126
PHYSIOLOGY 131
EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT 141
REPRODUCTIVE MANAGEMENT OF MARES 166
INFERTILITY IN THE MARE 170
MARES THAT FAIL TO CYCLE 174
OVARIECTOMY 186
MARES THAT CYCLE, CONCEIVE AND LOSE PREGNANCY AFTER 35 DAYS 187
MARES THAT CYCLE AND EITHER DO NOT CONCEIVE OR LOSE THEIR PREGNANCY BEFORE 35 DAYS 191
INJURIES/DISORDERS/DISEASES OF THE VAGINA, VESTIBULE AND VULVA 197
VENEREAL DISEASE 205
INTRAUTERINE THERAPY 209
SYSTEMIC ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY 215
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF THE TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT 215
NEOPLASTIC DISORDERS OF THE TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT OF MARES 217
REFERENCES 220
CHAPTER 6. MATING 226
NATURAL SERVICE 226
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION 229
EMBRYO TRANSFER 234
REFERENCES 237
CHAPTER 7. PREGNANCY 240
EARLY EVENTS 240
ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PREGNANCY26 243
DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY 246
ASSESSMENT OF THE FETUS 252
EARLY EMBRYONIC LOSS 253
TWINNING 255
MANAGEMENT OF THE HIGH-RISKPREGNANCY 260
ABORTION 266
DISEASES RESPONSIBLE FOR ABORTION 270
PREDICTION OF FOALING DATE 277
REFERENCES 277
CHAPTER 8. PARTURITION 282
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR BEFORE FOALING4 282
ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PARTURITION 284
PREPARATION FOR FOALING 284
STAGES AND SIGNS OF LABOR 286
PLACENTAL RETENTION 291
POSTNATAL CARE 291
INDUCTION OF PARTURITION 292
DYSTOCIA (ABNORMAL FOALING) 294
COMMON MALPRESENTATIONS, POSTURES AND POSITIONS 299
UTERINE INVOLUTION 307
FOAL HEAT 307
COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY AND PARTURITION 309
MANAGEMENT OF THE PERIPARTURIENT AND FOALING MARE AND THE NEWBORN FOAL 334
REFERENCES 335
CHAPTER 9. THE PLACENTA 338
THE NORMAL PLACENTA 338
EXAMINATION OF THE PLACENTA 341
ABNORMALITIES OF THE PLACENTA 346
REFERENCES 352
CHAPTER 10. THE MAMMARY GLAND 356
ANATOMY 356
MAMMARY GLAND DEVELOPMENT AND MILK PRODUCTION 356
WEANING 358
DISORDERS OF THE MAMMARY GLANDS 358
MAMMARY SURGERY 364
REFERENCES 365
CHAPTER 11. THE NEWBORN FOAL 366
NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY 366
ASSESSMENT OF A FOAL’S RISK CATEGORY 368
EVENTS FOLLOWING DELIVERY IN THE NORMAL FOAL (THE ADAPTIVE PERIOD) 371
EVALUATION OF THE NEWBORN FOAL 373
ROUTINE VETERINARY AND MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES FOR A NEWBORN FOAL 373
CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF THE NEWBORN FOAL 377
RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIALLY ABNORMAL FOAL 384
UNDERSTANDING IMMUNITY IN THE FOAL 387
NUTRITION OF THE FOAL IN HEALTH AND DISEASE 390
CONGENITAL DISORDERS OF THE FOAL 398
REFERRAL OF A FOAL TO A SPECIALIST CENTER 399
REFERENCES 402
INDEX 404