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Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Temple Grandin

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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.

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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

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  • Title Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding Livestock Behavior and Building Facilities for Healthier Animals
  • Author Temple Grandin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 227
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Storey Publishing, North Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2008-07-01
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781603420280 / 1603420282
  • Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.84 x 8.44 x 0.56 in (27.53 x 21.44 x 1.42 cm)
  • Category Technology & Industrial Arts
  • Library of Congress subjects Animal welfare, Livestock - Behavior
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008018030
  • Dewey Decimal Code 179.3

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