Temple Grandin

Humane Livestock Handling

Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Workman Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781603420280
• ISBN-10: 1603420282
• Artikelnr.: 23272324

Autorenporträt

Temple Grandin, PhD is an animal scientist who designs livestock-handling facilities worldwide and is an assistant professor of animal sciences at Colorado State University. A frequent lecturer on autism, she is the author of Emergence: Labeled Autistic, Thinking in Pictures and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1:     Animal Perception
Chapter 2:     Genetics and Learned Behavior
Chapter 3:     From Pasture to Pen
Chapter 4:     At the Handling Facility
Chapter 5:     Humane Slaughter
Chapter 6:     Planning and Designing
Chapter 7:     Construction
Chapter 8:     Ranch Layout Options and Details
Chapter 9:     Gates, Latches, and Other Useful Things
Chapter 10:    Feedlots and Beef Plants