Horse Healthcare
A manual for animal health workers and owners
This manual is designed for those who care for working horses but who may have little or no access to professional veterinary help. By guiding readers to the appropriate action to take when caring for a sick animal, this book will help alleviate the suffering of horses, donkeys and mules and thereby minimize the lost livelihood opportunities that can result. Horse Healthcare is designed to be accessible to both the owners of working equids themselves and the people who can help them out. Simple language is used and the text is clearly laid out with illustrations throughout. This makes the book useful to people who cannot understand standard texts on horse healthcare. The book is not intended to replace the role of the veterinary profession where an adequate animal healthcare service exists. In poorer countries, however, in situations where horse owners have no alternative but to treat their own sick animals, this manual gives guidance on how to do this properly and provides advice on how to prevent many common illnesses of equids. Published in association with the Brooke Hospital for Animals.
Published: 2002
Pages: 256
eBook: 9781780443515
Paperback: 9781853394867
Introduction | |||
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1 How to tie, restrain and transport horses and donkeys | |||
2 How to check signs of a horse or donkey’s health | |||
3 How to give medicines | |||
4 Normal feet and legs and shoeing | |||
5 Lameness | |||
6 How to prevent wounds and injuries | |||
7 How to treat wounds | |||
8 Lumps under the skin | |||
9 Diseases and parasites of the skin | |||
10 Diseases affecting breathing | |||
11 Other important infections | |||
12 Colic, pain in the belly | |||
13 Diarrhoea, worms and other parasites living inside the body | |||
14 Thin animals, liver disease and diseases causing urine problems | |||
15 Birth and care of foals | |||
16 Eye problems | |||
17 Poisoning | |||
18 Teeth and how to tell the age | |||
19 Heat stress | |||
20 How to shoot a horse | |||
Medicines | |||
Index |
David Hadrill David Hadrill is a veterinarian with over twenty years professional experience. He has lived and worked in India, the Caribbean, Somalia and Mongolia and has worked in many other developing countries. David now works as a consultant, specializing in community animal healthcare, training, project monitoring and evaluation.
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