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Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals
Oliver Sacks
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Description for Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals
Paperback. Reviews the natural behaviour and temperament of cattle. This book describes low-stress methods for moving cattle on pastures, paddocks, and feedlot pens. It features plans for various things from gate latches to chutes, corrals, and sorting pens for full-scale facilities. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: TVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 276 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 686.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Workman Publishing United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781603420280
SKU
V9781603420280
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-1
About Oliver Sacks
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 ... Read more
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