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Livestock Handling Resources

Following are resources for those who work with livestock. These resources were complied from the three year AFAC 4-H Livestock Handling project that was funded by ALIDF.

Visit afac.ab.ca/education.htm for more ag education resources.

Print materials

• Handle with Care cards - key points on understanding animal behavior toprevent injury
  • Horses
  • Cattle

• Horse Care brochure - AFAC, Alberta SPCA & Alberta Ag
• 4-H L.A.W. (Learning about Animal Welfare) program
• Handling Pigs - Work Smarter, Not Harder!

Video Clips

Clips require a broadband Internet connection and are in Windows Media format.

• Low Stress Cattle Handling Techniques with Richard McConnell & Tina Williams
• BC 4-H Safe Animal Handling (Permission granted by BC 4-H Apr 07)
  Play Safe Work Safe
  1. Introduction
  2. Animal Welfare
  3. Animal Behavior
  4. Safe Animal Handling
  5. Animal Diseases
  6. Animals in Public
  7. Conclusion
• Dr. Grandin's Livestock Handling & Animal Care Audits DVDs
• Clips from DVD #1 - Cattle Handling to Reduce Stress
  • Moving cattle quietly with a flag by using flight zone & point of balance principles (36 seconds / 1550KB)
  • Moving cattle quietly through a crowd pen (15 sec / 696KB)
  • Moving cattle quietly out of a gate (25 sec / 1091KB)
• Clips from DVD #3 - Animal (Pork & Beef) Handling in Meat Plants
  • Proper stunning of cattle with a captive bolt stunner renders cattle instantly insensible
    • Part 1 of 3 (25 sec / 1109KB)
    • Part 2 of 3 (9 sec / 426KB)
    • Part 3 of 3 (26 sec / 1158KB)

Click here to view a list of Dr. Grandin's complete DVDs.

• Freedom Five: Animal welfare in Alberta

Workshops