Equine Stud Farm Medicine & Surgery

COVER......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10
DEDICATION......Page 12
DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A BREEDING FARM......Page 14
SITE SELECTION......Page 15
FENCING......Page 19
BARNS......Page 24
RECORD-KEEPING......Page 31
STALLIONS Feeding......Page 34
Identification procedures......Page 38
YOUNG HORSES......Page 50
A RATIONAL APPROACH TO PARASITE CONTROL......Page 51
THE STALLION......Page 56
PHYSIOLOGY OF SPERM PRODUCTION Hormonal control......Page 63
BREEDING SOUNDNESS EXAMINATION......Page 68
SPECIFIC EXAMINATION OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 70
EXAMINATION OF INTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 72
ACCESSORY SEX GLANDS......Page 73
SEMEN COLLECTION......Page 75
SEMEN EXAMINATION......Page 78
THE STALLION BOOK......Page 89
VENEREAL (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED) DISEASES......Page 91
ORG_AN_S......Page 94
Congenitally small or short penis......Page 95
Scrotal trauma......Page 105
Varicocele......Page 112
OTHER CONDITIONS THAT LIMIT FERTILITY......Page 118
REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT......Page 126
PHYSIOLOGY......Page 131
EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT......Page 141
Rectal examination......Page 146
MARES THAT FAIL TO CYCLE......Page 174
CYCLIC ABNORMALITIES Spontaneous prolongation of the......Page 180
OVARIECTOMY......Page 186
MARES THAT CYCLE, CONCEIVE AND LOSE PREGNANCY AFTER 35 DAYS......Page 187
Cervical incompetence......Page 188
MARES THAT CYCLE AND EITHER DO NOT CONCEIVE OR LOSE THEIR PREGNANCY BEFORE 35 DAYS......Page 191
VENEREAL DISEASE......Page 205
INTRAUTERINE THERAPY......Page 209
MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF THE TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT Chromosomal abnormalities......Page 215
TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT OF MARES......Page 217
NATURAL SERVICE......Page 226
ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION......Page 229
EMBRYO TRANSFER......Page 234
EARLY EVENTS......Page 240
ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PREGNANCY26......Page 243
Rectal examination......Page 247
MANAGEMENT OF THE HIGH-RISK PREGNANCY......Page 260
Fetal electrocardiography93\"......Page 264
Equine herpesvirus 1......Page 270
Bacterial placentitis (see also p. 338)......Page 273
PREDICTION OF FOALING DATE......Page 277
PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR BEFORE FOALING4......Page 282
PREPARATION FOR FOALING......Page 284
Stage 1......Page 286
POSTNATAL CARE......Page 291
INDUCTION OF PARTURITION......Page 292
DYSTOCIA (ABNORMAL FOALING)......Page 294
Shoulder flexion......Page 299
Dog-sitter posture......Page 300
FOAL HEAT......Page 307
COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY AND PARTURITION......Page 309
MANAGEMENT OF THE PERIPARTURIENT AND FOALING MARE AND THE NEWBORN FOAL Routine preventive medicine......Page 334
THE NORMAL PLACENTA......Page 338
EXAMINATION OF THE PLACENTA......Page 341
MAMMARY GLAND DEVELOPMENT AND MILK PRODUCTION......Page 356
NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY......Page 366
ASSESSMENT OF A FOAL\'S RISK CATEGORY......Page 368
EVENTS FOLLOWING DELIVERY IN THE NORMAL FOAL (THE ADAPTIVE PERIOD)......Page 371
ROUTINE VETERINARY AND MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES FOR A NEWBORN FOAL......Page 373
Blood sampling......Page 375
CLINICAL EXAMINATION OFTHE NEWBORN FOAL......Page 377
RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIALLY ABNORMAL FOAL......Page 384
UNDERSTANDING IMMUNITY IN THE FOAL......Page 387
NUTRITION OF THE FOAL IN HEALTH AND DISEASE......Page 390
INDEX......Page 404