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Description: |
xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index. |
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General Note: |
"Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals"--Cover. |
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"Includes complete construction plans for facilities of every size"--Page 4 of cover. |
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Contents Note: |
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. |
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Contents: Animal perception -- Making sense of the world -- Sensory thinking and memory -- Teaching animals to trust -- Genetics and learned behavior -- Genetics influence animal behavior -- Early experience and temperament -- Male behavior -- From pasture to pen -- 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 -- At the handling facility -- Livestock handling principles inside the corrals and chutes -- Measure handling success -- Facility fixes that alleviate animal stress -- Restraint practices -- Troubleshooting handling problems -- Humane slaughter -- Caring for animals to the end -- How slaughter plants kill animals -- Maintaining high standards -- Planning and designing -- The big picture -- Plan with animal behavior in mind -- Curved system design strategies -- Design your facility -- Site layout of the basic cattle-handling system -- Construction -- Building a basic curved system -- Ranch layout options and details -- 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 -- Gates, latches, and other useful things -- 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. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
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. |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0904/2008018030.html |