Humane Livestock Handling - by Temple Grandin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Discover how humanely handling your livestock can improve the day-to-day operation and profitability of your farm. Stressing the importance of understanding livestock behavior, Temple Grandin shows you how to develop a respectful working relationship with your animals to promote their health and productivity. With detailed construction plans for animal-friendly facilities of all sizes and dozens of low-stress methods for moving your livestock on pastures, padlocks, and feedlot pens, this guide has everything you need to know to create a comfortable atmosphere for thriving, happy livestock.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>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. <br>Well-treated animals, free from fear and pain: <p/><ul><li>Injure themselves less frequently, keeping bruised meat to a minimum.</li></ul><ul><li>Stay healthier, reducing veterinary expenditures.</li></ul><ul><li>Remain calm in most circumstances, keeping human handlers safer.</li></ul><ul><li>Deliver higher yields of marketable meat.</li></ul><ul><li>Answer consumer demand for humanely raised meat.</li></ul><ul><li>Are an indispensable part of efficient, satisfying, ethically managed small farms.</li></ul>Includes complete construction plans for facilities of every size: <br><ul><li>Handling systems for ranches</li></ul><ul><li>Cattle corral systems</li></ul><ul><li>Sheep and bison corrals</li></ul><ul><li>Loading ramp details</li></ul><ul><li>Fences and gates</li></ul><ul><li> Latches</li></ul> <p/><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>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 </p><br>
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