Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals - Softcover

Grandin, Temple

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1603420282 ISBN 13: 9781603420280

Publisher: Storey, 2008

Synopsis

Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows you how to develop a respectful working relationship with your animals to promote their health and productivity. With detailed construction plans for animal-friendly facilities of all sizes and dozens of low-stress methods for moving your livestock on pastures, padlocks, and feedlot pens, this guide has everything you need to know to create a comfortable atmosphere for thriving, happy livestock.

About this title

About the Author

Temple Grandin is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human, as well as Thinking in Pictures, Humane Livestock Handling, Improving Animal Welfare, and The Autistic Brain. Dr. Grandin’s humane livestock facility designs have been adopted all over the world, and she is a consultant on animal welfare to several segments of the fast food industry. Her work has been featured on NPR, 60 Minutes, and The Today Show and in the New York Times and Time and Discover magazines. The story of her life was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie titled Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.

From the Back Cover

Improve the day-to-day operation as well as the profitability of your farm by raising healthier, more contented animals. The benefits are great--for you and for your livestock.
Well-treated animals, free from fear and pain:

• Injure themselves less frequently, keeping bruised meat to a minimum.

• Stay healthier, reducing veterinary expenditures.

• Remain calm in most circumstances, keeping human handlers safer.

• Deliver higher yields of marketable meat.

• Answer consumer demand for humanely raised meat.

• Are an indispensable part of efficient, satisfying, ethically managed small farms.

Includes complete construction plans for facilities of every size:

• Handling systems for ranches

• Cattle corral systems

• Sheep and bison corrals

• Loading ramp details

• Fences and gates

• Latches

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603420282
• ISBN 13: 9781603420280
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227