Temple Grandin lectures on how distractions, lighting and shadows can cause livestock to balk and refuse to move through races, cattle chutes, and corrals.
Your Video lectures on how distractions, lighting and shadows can cause livestock to balk and refuse to move through races, cattle chutes, and corrals Is Very Useful Sharing
dr grandin, I have a cow calf operation here in mexico and i am thinking of using your 150 cow and calf pair design, the problem is that i have 300 cow and calf pairs in my inventory. Do i just doble the measurements on the desing for my 300 cows?
I see when you say that a hot branding is bigger and also permanent but the reason for a tag is that when you are near cattle, they will turn their head and ears toward you making it easier to see their numbers than something on their butt
@canadiancountryboy94 have you tried dry ice branding? on darker cattle it shows up great, and you can get these really small stainless steel tag that stay in much better. then you can tag them as they go out of your farm and so you can keep better records
@canadiancountryboy94 Hasco makes them for the most part, they sit more flush with the ear. They can still come off, but its 1000 times better than normal tags. ear notching does work too like they do on hogs, but i don't do it
Some breeds of cattle are more excitable and they can become fearful more easily. They are more sensitive to being startled. My book "Temple Grandin's Guide to Working With Farm Animals" may be helpful.
WOW! That is amazing. Glad, I dont have this kind of job. I would feel so guilty/horrible if I scared them. And am obsessive, but I'm sure I would still miss something. -- P.S I have autism too
Luis Lopez go in to the area very calm (I work with cattle every day) and try to do it at a time where they are eating or are distracted with something else
it makes me so sad to see animals die:: i tried being vegetarian, but i only got one year in. before i nearly collapsed from not having enough energy in my system. it's important that we stay sustained, but it's also important that we respect one another, and, especially, the things that don't HAVE a say in what happens to them. i can't IMAGINE being in the place of an animal gone to slaughter, how inhuman and rude and dirty and sloppy such an existence can be!! but Temple, thank God, using her skills, finally puts us ALL in our place. i think, before she came along, nobody, especially owners of slaughter houses, WANTED to put themselves in the animal's place. but, by doing so, she demonstrates that there is a problem with the way we treat the things we eat and that we need to love and respect all life, not just other human beings.
Cows are castrated, their horns are ripped out, and have third-degree burns inflicted on them without any painkillers. What do you recommend, Dr. Grandin, to ease the animals' stress with regard to these despicable acts of violence inflicted upon them?
Dr. Grandin, your recommendations on how to keep a terrified animal moving along the disassembly line go a long way to reduce the number of times he will be kicked, poked, electrocuted, punched, and otherwise brutalized by frustrated workers in this miserably cruel industry. Still, nothing in your videos, in my estimation, lends itself to the humane handling of slaughtered animals. What, if anything, have you recommended to the industry with regard to the humane transport of animals?
Right, which means to say that this facility handles cattle. I miss your point. That this facility is somehow more humane than...say, the slaughterhouse?
When I eat vegan food, I needn't worry about what kind of disease the food died of. This makes for a wonderous meal! 100,000 disease-laden cows rife with infection and shot up with steroids are slaughtered every day. What is not 'fit' to sell for human consumption--slaughterhouse floor remains--is ground up and processed into protein meal and fed to livestock, who are then reprocessed and sold for human consumption. But you knew that already--being a rancher. Bon appetit!
