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Low Stress Handling Techniques
Richard McConnell & Tina Williams… For just $10 in handling fees, you can have your own copy a 30-minutes video on "Low Stress Handling Techniques” featuring the methods taught by Tina Williams, daughter of Bud Williams, and her husband Richard McConnell.
This is a must for livestock producers looking for ways to handle livestock with greater ease. The DVD also serves as a refresher for the hundreds of producers who have attended the annual low stress handling workshops organized by FACS. The DVD was made possible with financial support from Intervet Schering Plough and Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food (ACAAF) and is divided into three segments.
The Zones of Influence segment presents diagrams that identify the ‘flight and pressure zones’ used to handle animals; as well as actual examples of what to do and what not to do. Richard and Tina demonstrate how to respond positively by “reading” the animals, and explain the difference between taming and training livestock. Using the ‘T’ to the Gate shows how to avoid anticipating problems, the importance of walking in straight lines (curving or circling is predatory) and ensuring you are constantly within the animals’ line of vision, among several other practical techniques that help animals remain calm. Using Livestock’s Natural Instincts demonstrates the ‘pressure and release’ techniques to improve loading, sorting and moving animals.
Watch Online!!
FACS now has these videos available online and can be viewed by clicking the image to the right.
For more information about Richard and Tina, click their website www.handnhandlivestocksolutions.com. To order your own copy of the DVD contact FACS by telephone at (306) 249-3227 or by e-mail at facs@sasktel.net.
Dr. Temple Grandin
Dr. Temple Grandin, Associate Professor at Colorado State University, who is known the world over for her research and designs for highly functional livestock handling facilities, has provided FACS, AFAC, MFAC and OFAC with master copies of four audio/visual presentations, and given us permission to make them available in Canada at $10 each, including GST.
DVD #1 - BEEF STOCKMAN/PRODUCERS
Cattle Handling to Reduce Stress (53 min)
DVD #2 PORK STOCKMAN/PRODUCERS
Low Stress Handling of Pigs on Farm (37 min)
- What a pig sees
- Stressors
- Flight Zone
- Faculty design
- Benefits of good welfare
Handling & Stunning of Pigs at the Meat Plant (30 min)
DVD #3 RED MEAT PROCESSORS, FEEDLOTS, AUCTION MARKETS
Animal (Pork & Beef) Handling in Meat Plants (37 min)
- For provincial & federal abattoirs, auction markets and feed yards
- Faculty distractions that impede livestock movement
- See what animals are looking at
- Yard and curved chute layouts (small & large)
- Simple techniques to improve facilities
- Basic animal behavior principles (flight zone)
- How to reduce electric prod use
- Proper, consistent humane stunning to achieve 100% insensibility
- Practical advice for captive bolt and electric stunning
- How to ensure the head is dead
Stunning of Cattle (12 min)
Implementing Animal Handling & Auditing Programs (26 min)
- On farm/feedlot/ranch
- Cattle and pork
Handling & Stunning of Pigs at the Meat Plant (30 min)
- Ensuring meat quality, what meat plants workers can do
- Faculty design
DVD #4 RELIGIOUS SLAUGHTER (10 min)
Click here to order… for more information about Dr. Grandin, visit her website www.grandin.com
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