Table of contents : COVER......Page 1 CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 10 DEDICATION......Page 12 DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A BREEDING FARM......Page 14 SITE SELECTION......Page 15 FENCING......Page 19 BARNS......Page 24 RECORD-KEEPING......Page 31 STALLIONS Feeding......Page 34 Identification procedures......Page 38 YOUNG HORSES......Page 50 A RATIONAL APPROACH TO PARASITE CONTROL......Page 51 THE STALLION......Page 56 PHYSIOLOGY OF SPERM PRODUCTION Hormonal control......Page 63 BREEDING SOUNDNESS EXAMINATION......Page 68 SPECIFIC EXAMINATION OF EXTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 70 EXAMINATION OF INTERNAL GENITALIA......Page 72 ACCESSORY SEX GLANDS......Page 73 SEMEN COLLECTION......Page 75 SEMEN EXAMINATION......Page 78 THE STALLION BOOK......Page 89 VENEREAL (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED) DISEASES......Page 91 ORG_AN_S......Page 94 Congenitally small or short penis......Page 95 Scrotal trauma......Page 105 Varicocele......Page 112 OTHER CONDITIONS THAT LIMIT FERTILITY......Page 118 REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT......Page 126 PHYSIOLOGY......Page 131 EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE GENITAL TRACT......Page 141 Rectal examination......Page 146 MARES THAT FAIL TO CYCLE......Page 174 CYCLIC ABNORMALITIES Spontaneous prolongation of the......Page 180 OVARIECTOMY......Page 186 MARES THAT CYCLE, CONCEIVE AND LOSE PREGNANCY AFTER 35 DAYS......Page 187 Cervical incompetence......Page 188 MARES THAT CYCLE AND EITHER DO NOT CONCEIVE OR LOSE THEIR PREGNANCY BEFORE 35 DAYS......Page 191 VENEREAL DISEASE......Page 205 INTRAUTERINE THERAPY......Page 209 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF THE TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT Chromosomal abnormalities......Page 215 TUBULAR GENITAL TRACT OF MARES......Page 217 NATURAL SERVICE......Page 226 ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION......Page 229 EMBRYO TRANSFER......Page 234 EARLY EVENTS......Page 240 ENDOCRINOLOGY OF PREGNANCY26......Page 243 Rectal examination......Page 247 MANAGEMENT OF THE HIGH-RISK PREGNANCY......Page 260 Fetal electrocardiography93"......Page 264 Equine herpesvirus 1......Page 270 Bacterial placentitis (see also p. 338)......Page 273 PREDICTION OF FOALING DATE......Page 277 PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES THAT OCCUR BEFORE FOALING4......Page 282 PREPARATION FOR FOALING......Page 284 Stage 1......Page 286 POSTNATAL CARE......Page 291 INDUCTION OF PARTURITION......Page 292 DYSTOCIA (ABNORMAL FOALING)......Page 294 Shoulder flexion......Page 299 Dog-sitter posture......Page 300 FOAL HEAT......Page 307 COMPLICATIONS OF PREGNANCY AND PARTURITION......Page 309 MANAGEMENT OF THE PERIPARTURIENT AND FOALING MARE AND THE NEWBORN FOAL Routine preventive medicine......Page 334 THE NORMAL PLACENTA......Page 338 EXAMINATION OF THE PLACENTA......Page 341 MAMMARY GLAND DEVELOPMENT AND MILK PRODUCTION......Page 356 NEONATAL PHYSIOLOGY......Page 366 ASSESSMENT OF A FOAL'S RISK CATEGORY......Page 368 EVENTS FOLLOWING DELIVERY IN THE NORMAL FOAL (THE ADAPTIVE PERIOD)......Page 371 ROUTINE VETERINARY AND MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES FOR A NEWBORN FOAL......Page 373 Blood sampling......Page 375 CLINICAL EXAMINATION OFTHE NEWBORN FOAL......Page 377 RECOGNIZING THE POTENTIALLY ABNORMAL FOAL......Page 384 UNDERSTANDING IMMUNITY IN THE FOAL......Page 387 NUTRITION OF THE FOAL IN HEALTH AND DISEASE......Page 390 INDEX......Page 404