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Humane livestock handling / Temple Grandin with Mark Deesing.
Veterinary: Atwood Library (Campus) HV4757 .G73 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grandin, Temple.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Livestock--Handling--United States.
- Livestock.
- Livestock--Behavior.
- Livestock--Housing--United States--Design and construction.
- Animal welfare.
- Animals--Treatment.
- Livestock--Handling.
- Livestock--Housing--Design and construction.
- Livestock--Housing.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., [2008]
- Summary:
- Provides a guide for handling livestock animals, focusing on more humane treatment techniques, and discusses planning and designing a handling facility, corral and loading ramp layouts for ranches, and other related topics.
- Contents:
- Animal perception
- Genetics and learned behavior
- From pasture to pen
- At the handling facility
- Humane slaughter
- Planning and designing
- Construction
- Ranch layout options and details
- Gates, latches, and other useful things
- Feedlots and beef plants.
- Making sense of the world
- Sensory thinking and memory
- Teaching animals to trust
- Genetics influence animal behavior
- Early experience and temperament
- Male behavior
- Instinctive predator-avoidance patterns
- Handling practices that use animal instinct
- Using loose bunching behavior to gather animals
- Initiating and controlling movement
- Pasture training
- Rotational grazing without fences
- Calming wild cattle entering pens
- Livestock handling principles inside the corrals and chutes
- Measure handling success
- Facility fixes that alleviate animal stress
- Restraint practices
- Troubleshooting handling problems
- Caring for animals to the end
- How slaughter plants kill animals
- Maintaining high standards
- The big picture
- Plan with animal behavior in mind
- Curved system design strategies
- Design your facility
- Site layout of the basic cattle-handling system
- Building a basic curved system
- Basic handling systems for ranches
- Cattle corral system options
- Economy cattle corrals
- Bison and sheep corrals
- Loading ramp details
- Single-file chute and handler walkway choices
- Specialty gates
- Fences and gates with belly rails
- Latches
- Bison system details
- Miscellaneous details
- Feedlots and beef plants
- Feedlots
- Beef plants
- Meat plant details and options.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index.
- "Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals"--Cover.
- "Includes complete construction plans for facilities of every size"--Page 4 of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781603420280
- 1603420282
- OCLC:
- 176902393
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