Product Description

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Reference for veterinary practitioners on the diagnosis and treatment of individual goats as well as herd or flock goats. Reflects goat management in tropical, subtropical, and temperate zones. Well-referenced. Halftone illustrations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #919506 in Books
• Published on: 1994-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 620 pages

From the Back Cover
Ideal for any practitioner concerned with promoting the health and productivity of commercial herds, this book constitutes a single complete source for current information on medical and behavioral problems, presenting signs, relevant diseases, drug therapies with precise dosages, management "pearls" and alternative approaches to care.

About the Author
Mary C. Smith, DVM, Diplomate, ACT, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, New York State College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. David M. Sherman, DVM, MS, Diplomate, ACVIM, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Sectional of International Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, Massachusetts.

Customer Reviews

Great Reference and learning Tool
Goat Medicine is a MUST for folks who have goats and want to understand and learn about goat health and diseases. Don't run your veterinarian off! but this book can help the owner/manager recognize symptons, understand prevention and work out reasonable treatments...treatments that work into an already too busy day. Yes, there is theory.... Great if you like to understand and run ideas through your own head. skip that part, if it doesn't make sense, and go onto more basics-- prevention, control, treatment.

If my 75 animals aren't 100%, this is the first book I open. And the book stays on my truck seat, kitchen table, bedside until some questions are answered. There are many books with basic goat care. If that is what you want, fine. If you want to dig a little deeper, understand goat health and learn more about your animals, then THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!! Well worth the money..just by saving/helping one animal.
P.S. Exceptional for international goat health..if that's your thing.

An excellent review of the field
This book is a very thorough review of the literature on goat medicine. Its bibliographies alone are worth its price. The work seems primarily intended for veterinary students, researchers, and veterinarians willing to consult the literature (Dr. Smith is on the Cornell University veterinary faculty). It isn't intended as a cookbook of treatments and will disappoint if consulted in this way. But if one needs a basic understanding of any aspect of goat medicine, this is where to start reading. The authors provide coherent, thoroughly referenced overviews of each topic that provide frameworks for evaluating individual research papers. Anyone caring for significant numbers of goats, even if not a scientist or academic, should regard this as a necessary textbook of her vocation. She should at least absorb the overviews, even if she does not consult the references. We look after 250 goats and could not navigate without this book. I only wish a new edition would be published, to take in work done during the last seven or eight years.

For veterinarians, this book doesn't offer practical help.
If you are a goat enthusiast, this book is a great overview of Goat Medicine. If you are a Veterinarian, you can broaden your knowledge base by learning all of the details. But if you are expecting any kind of practice assistance, you will be disappointed. Basically I feel this book does a great job discussing everything in the world that could go wrong with a goat, but not a lot of help in solving the problems. For goat raisers/breeders/enthusiasts this is a good find; for practicing veterinarians who are after practical guidance, this is not the greatest.