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.
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
If the animals on America's factory farms got together to award an Animal Nobel Peace Prize, they would surely give it to Temple Grandin. Who else has brought her combination of deep empathy and hard-headed engineering know-how to their lot? "Humane Livestock Handling" will make that know-how more widely available, and few things could do more to improve the lot of these animals. -Michael Pollan
