Farms: Low-Stress Cattle Handling for Productivity and Safety
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In Canada one in five of all farm and ranch injuries serious enough to require hospitalization are livestock-related. Injuries involving cattle handling account for many of these hospitalizations. Although handlers may have many years of experience and may work carefully around cattle, it is important to also have knowledge about cattle's behaviour so that they can be moved in a low-stress manner. This increases herd productivity and also maintains a safer working environment for the handler. The video shows expert cattle handler, Dylan Biggs, Coronation, Alberta, describing cattle's behaviour related to movement and demonstrating low-stress cattle handling methods. Cattle handlers from British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia are interviewed in the video.
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Excellent video! Dylan Biggs is an excellent teacher and cattle handler
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There isn't a safe way in handling cattle you have to be aware because cattle will be cattle and if they are gentle you won't have to be aware you can stroll right threw em and with a cow with her calf always be aware
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and I raise brahman cattle so I know
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the thing is there shouldn't have to be yelling screaming to make them move whistling works clapping works but not hay hah hay hah the gentler your cattle are the easier to catch them and the easier to sort them