Veterinary Care of Farm Rabbits: A Complete Practice Guide to Rabbit Medicine and Production

Features:

• Rabbit breeds, anatomy essentials and lagomorph physiology
• Rabbit production with details on animal facilities and farm design, international trading, rabbit meat processing and biosafety, including a vivid appendix on meat inspection
• Rabbit herd and health management, considering latest findings in welfare and behavior, preventive medicine, antimicrobial resistance and demedication to necropsy and specimen collection
• Significant rabbit diseases, covering encephalitozoonosis cuniculi, rabbit enteropathies, and many more
• Complete veterinary treatment, supplemented by reference ranges and interpretation of hematological and biochemical values

Table of Contents:

Part I: Rabbit Breed and Anatomy Essentials

• Introductory Chapter: The Domestic Rabbit and Farm Management
• Anatomical Features of Rabbits
• Physiological Features of Rabbits

Part II: Rabbit Production

• Worldwide Rabbit Meat Trade
• Rabbit Farming: Industrial, Small-Scale, and Organic Housing Systems
• Rabbit Farming: Indoor Microclimate
• Rabbit Farming: Cages and Related Equipment
• Welfare, Behavior, and Housing of Rabbits
• Welfare Protocols for Rabbits
• Rabbit Nutrition and Feeding
• Reproduction in the Female Rabbit
• The Rabbit Male Reproduction
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies
• Rabbit Meat Processing and Safety
• Assessing Rabbit Body and Carcass Traits with Non-invasive and Non-destructive Image Techniques
• Rabbit Skins and Furs: Production, Properties, and Potentiality as Raw Materials for Tanning and Other Industries

Part III: Rabbit Herd and Health Management and Diseases

• Preventive Medicine and Rabbit Health Management
• Administration of Antimicrobials and Resistance in Food-Producing Rabbits: Dietary Supplements as Potential Alternatives
• Respiratory Complex in Rabbits (Pasteurellosis)
• Rabbit Enteric Syndrome
• Epizootic Rabbit Enteropathy (ERE)
• Escherichia coli in the Rabbit: Commensal or Pathogenic
• Clostridium spp. in Rabbits: The Underappreciated Killer
• Staphylococcosis in Rabbits and Rabbitries
• Rabbit Viral Diseases: Myxomatosis and Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease
• Rabbit Viral Diseases (II): Other Viruses
• Dermatophytosis in Rabbits
• Encephalitozoon cuniculi: An Emergent Pathogen
• Rabbit Coccidiosis
• Major Endoparasitoses in Rabbits: Oxyuriosis and Metacestodosis
• Ectoparasitoses in Rabbits
• Mycotoxin Effects and Risk Management in Rabbit Production
• Insights into Clinical Pathology of Rabbits
• Necropsy and Sample Collection in Rabbits

Appendix

• Meat Rabbits’ Inspection: Abnormal Findings at Slaughterhouse

Index