Book Description
A practical and highly-illustrated didactic guide to veterinary obstetrics. Providing a clear description of normal birth, together with criteria for deciding what is abnormal. The aim is to provide good practical advice and guidelines about how to proceed with obstetrical problems in the domestic species encountered in practice. To describe clearly normal birth in these species so that the new graduate who may not have witnessed birth knows what to expect and how to decide the difference between normal and abnormal. To describe the causes of dystocia encountered in the field in each species and to discuss diagnosis, decision making and treatment including immediate care of the mother and offspring after delivery.