This guide provides up-to-date information on swine health, covering topics often omitted in standard textbooks, such as pig handling, comfort assessment, and reproductive physiology. It organizes common disorders by their clinical manifestations—such as lameness, respiratory issues, or skin conditions—to facilitate rapid diagnosis and decision-making in the field. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for those involved in swine production and veterinary care.
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Guide to the Recognition of Pig Disorders
by John Carr
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This book provides swine practitioners, students and farmers with very useful, up-to-date and thorough information about any disorder that might affect pigs. The guide will also go through issues which are often difficult to find in textbooks, like clinical examinations of pigs, normal behaviour and pig handling, reproductive physiology and the main disorders with their main clinical findings.
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ISBN: 9788417640347
- Focus on clinical examination skills and diagnostic techniques
- Detailed coverage of normal pig behavior and handling
- Disorder identification organized by clinical signs
- Practical information for farmers, students, and veterinary practitioners
- Covers topics including reproductive physiology and comfort assessment
Physical
- Format: Paper
Publication
- Publisher: Edra Publishing
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788417640347
- Officially published in 3 languages: Spanish, Polish, English
Classification
- Discipline: Veterinary
- Primary specialty: Livestock
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- Size: 11 × 20 cm
- Binding: Hardcover, wire-o
- Print ISBN: 9788417640347
- Publication year: 2020
- Pages: 112
- Languages: Published in Spanish, Polish and English
- 1. Clinical examination skills and recognition of pig disorders; 2. Pig normal behaviour (Boar breeding, Sow behaviour, Piglet behaviour, Comfort assessment, Pigs at play, Handling and moving pigs); 3. Pig disorders according to clinical signs (Abortion, Coughing, Dead pigs, Deformity to the head, Diarrhoea, Discharge, Itchy, Lame, Mastitis, Nervous signs, Poor pigs, Prolapse, Skin blotches, Skin lump, Slaughterhouse complaint, Sneezing, Stillborn).
John Carr
John Carr is a consultant swine veterinarian who qualified from the University of Liverpool in 1982. He holds a PhD in urinary tract problems of pigs and has held academic positions at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and universities in Liverpool, North Carolina, Iowa, and Western Australia. He specializes in microbiology, pathology, and production medicine, providing consultancy services to clients across North America, Europe, and Asia.
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