A guide to the care and treatment of deer for veterinary professionals
Deer Veterinary Medicine is an essential reference for veterinary professionals preparing for deer encounters. Rooted in extensive field experience, the contributions from a range of authors provide details of common conditions across multiple deer species and the knowledge required by the veterinary professionals who deal with them. The book considers the different contexts where deer are encountered, including wild populations, and deer held in captivity (as farm, park and zoo collections).
The chapters topics range from handling and sedating deer through to nutrition and postmortem examination and pathology. They cover key body systems including the gut, nervous, ocular and respiratory systems, and the skin.
Deer Veterinary Medicine readers will also find:
- Detailed consideration of the use of sedation in deer, providing analgesia and methods of euthanasia.
- Coverage of species including red, roe, fallow, water deer, Reeves muntjac, reindeer and white-tailed deer.
- Coverage of veterinary interventions for reproductive purposes.
- Detailed consideration of the management of parasitic diseases.
- Detailed consideration of notifiable (including TB and CWD) and zoonotic diseases (including E. coli and cryptosporidiosis).
- A detailed drug formulary including, where available, evidence from published studies.
Edited by the past president of the British Deer Veterinary Association (BDVA) this book is a fitting successor to Management and Diseases of Deer: A Handbook for Veterinary Surgeons, last published in 1994 by the Veterinary Deer Society (now the BDVA). Synthesizing key contributions by a range of experts from Europe and the US, the new Deer Veterinary Medicine is ideal for veterinarians, veterinary surgeons and veterinary students, as well as readers interested in the management of captive and wild deer.
List of Contributors ix
Foreword xiii
Preface xvii
Acknowledgements xix
List of Tables xxi
List of Illustrations/Images xxiii
1 Introduction to Cervids 1
2 Managing, Handling and Moving Deer 45
3 Analgesia, euthanasia, restraint and sedation in deer 51
4 Surgical Interventions and Imaging Methods in Deer 63
5 Deer in Deer Parks 69
6 An Overview of Red Deer Farming in the United Kingdom 81
7 Wild Deer in the UK (Health and Welfare, Deer-Vehicle Collisions and
Disease Surveillance) 89
8 Venison in the United Kingdom 105
9 Rehabilitation of Deer 115
10 Antlers 123
11 Reproduction in Deer 137
12 Nutrition of Deer 151
13 Notifiable Diseases in Deer Chronic Wasting Disease 177
14 Notifiable Diseases in Deer Mycobacterium bovis Infection 183
15 Serological Methods and Mycobacterium bovis Infection in Deer 197
16 Notifiable Diseases in Deer 205
17 Malignant Catarrhal Fever in Deer 211
18 Gastrointestinal Diseases in Deer Mycobacterium avium Subspecies
paratuberculosis and Johnes Disease 219
19 Gastrointestinal and Hepatic Parasite Diseases in Deer 235
20 Gastrointestinal Diseases in Deer 245
21 Zoonotic Agents and Deer (Cryptosporidiosis, Salmonellosis, Toxoplasmosis
and SARS-CoV-2) 251
22 Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli in Deer 265
23 Neurological Diseases in Deer 273
24 Respiratory Parasite Diseases in Deer 283
25 Respiratory Diseases in Deer Bacterial, Fungal and Viral 293
26 Skin Diseases in Deer 307
27 Deer Ophthalmology A Practical Approach to Deer Ophthalmic Examination
321
28 Lameness and Hoof Problems in Deer 345
29 Vector-borne Infections in Deer Threat to Deer Health and Role of Deer
in Transmission of Diseases of Veterinary and Medical Importance 359
30 Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) 371
31 Reindeer 385
32 An Overview of Diseases of Farmed White-tailed Deer 395
33 Anatomical Pathology and Deer A Guide to Postmortem Examination and
Pathology 423
34 Cervine Formulary 435
Index 459
Aiden P. Foster, PhD is past president of the BDVA and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, having spent his career working in academia and the civil service. His work has focused on veterinary dermatology (including livestock), publishing (as a journal editor and author) and disease surveillance in livestock and wildlife, including deer.
