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    Handling and Restraining Livestock: Floron C. Faries, Jr. DVM, MS

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    The document discusses techniques for handling and restraining livestock, including cattle, horses, swine, sheep and goats. It describes tools like halters, stanchions, squeeze chutes and stocks that are used to restrain livestock. It provides step-by-step instructions for restraining techniques like haltering, flanking, casting, and positioning animals vertically or horizontally. The goal is to safely restrain livestock for procedures while minimizing stress through proper handling and restraint methods.

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    The document discusses techniques for handling and restraining livestock, including cattle, horses, swine, sheep and goats. It describes tools like halters, stanchions, squeeze chutes and stocks that are used to restrain livestock. It provides step-by-step instructions for restraining techniques like haltering, flanking, casting, and positioning animals vertically or horizontally. The goal is to safely restrain livestock for procedures while minimizing stress through proper handling and restraint methods.

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    The document discusses techniques for handling and restraining livestock, including cattle, horses, swine, sheep and goats. It describes tools like halters, stanchions, squeeze chutes and stocks that are used to restrain livestock. It provides step-by-step instructions for restraining techniques like haltering, flanking, casting, and positioning animals vertically or horizontally. The goal is to safely restrain livestock for procedures while minimizing stress through proper handling and restraint methods.

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    Handling and Restraining Livestock: Floron C. Faries, Jr. DVM, MS

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    Acherl NagnamiLl
    The document discusses techniques for handling and restraining livestock, including cattle, horses, swine, sheep and goats. It describes tools like halters, stanchions, squeeze chutes and stocks that are used to restrain livestock. It provides step-by-step instructions for restraining techniques like haltering, flanking, casting, and positioning animals vertically or horizontally. The goal is to safely restrain livestock for procedures while minimizing stress through proper handling and restraint methods.

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    Handling and Restraining

    Livestock

    Floron C. Faries, Jr. DVM, MS


    Objectives
     Discuss the different fear responses of livestock
     Describe the steps for catching livestock
     Describe the techniques for restraining livestock
     Describe special tools and procedures for
    restraining livestock.
     Describe the unique risks involved when
    handling and restraining livestock
    Dairy Cattle
     Excessive restraint frightens.
     Halters – Haltering
     Loosen chin rope.
     Go over nose and under chin with left hand.

     Tighten chin rope by pull of lead rope with left hand.


     Place headstall with right hand over poll and behind
    ears.
     Stanchions
     Milking parlor
     Treatment pen
    Beef Cattle
     Squeeze chutes
     Close head gate.
     Close tail gate.
     Close sides.
     Apply nose bar or nose tong to work head.
     Drop bottom side plank to work feet.
     Drop side bars to work neck, body and legs.
     Tilt calf chute (calf table) to work calves.

     Lane chute
     Crowd multiple cattle.
     Chock single animal with pole in front and rear.
     Cast rope – Casting (Burley Method)
     Halter tie head.
     Pass rope over withers, ends through forelegs, cross over
    back and through hindlegs.
     Pull both ends of rope from rear to fall cow.
     Flanking (Calves)
     Reach over calf.
     Reach down flank and grasp nearest hindleg with one hand.
     Reach between forelegs and grasp nearest foreleg with
    other hand.
     Lift and slide calf to ground.
     Kneel on neck and thigh.
     Lift bottom foreleg from ground.
    Horses
     Excessive restraint frightens.
     Halters – Haltering
     Stocks
     Place on halter and lead in stock.
     Tie rope to stock in front and rear of horse.
     Double clove hitch ties

     Kick gate

     Hobbles – Hobbling
     To prevent kicking
     Pass rope over neck (ring), ends through front legs,
    through hock hobbles (inside to outside) on back legs
    and through neck ring.
     Twitches
     Place nose twitch (rope or chain loop on upper lip).
     Place nose clamp on upper lip.
     Place skin twitch by hand grasp and roll of skin on neck or
    shoulder.
     Cast ropes – Casting
     Place on halter
     Pass rope ring over neck, ends from withers through pastern
    hobbles (inside to outside) on back legs and through neck ring.
     Pull opposite side rope end around rump to assist fall.
     Pull fall side rope end from front to fall horse to off side.
     Pull halter lead rope to near side and kneel on neck.
     Tie pasterns with rope ends with double clove slip hitch.
     Hand cast – Casting foal
     Place one hand under neck.
     Reach over and pull tail between hindlegs with
    other hand to slump foal to ground.
     Kneel on neck and maintain tail hold.
    Swine
     Nose snare
     Cable or rope loop
     Place loop over snout behind canine teeth.

     Rope-board cast
     Rope tie foreleg and hindleg together.
     Cast with vertical board.
     Apply pressure with board against body to ground.

     Rope cast
     Place rope ring on neck and run rope end along body with
    half hitches behind forelegs and front of hindlegs.
     Pull rope end from rear to fall hog.
     Hurdle board
     Headgate crate
     Vertical hold legs with hands (head up, belly out)
     Additional restraint between knees

     Vertical hold legs with hands (head down, belly out)


     Additional restraint between knees

     Horizontal hold on side with knee on shoulder and


    with hands hold on top legs
     Horizontal hold on back in V-board trough with
    hindlegs pulled forward
    Sheep and Goats
     Halter
     Collar
     Flank hold
     Jaw restraint
     Rumping
     Pull jaw and push flank to roll back on rump.
     Grasp front legs.
     Saddle restraint
     Straddle and grasp body with knees.
     Vertical hold with hands (head up, belly out)
     Additional restraint between knees
     Horizontal hold on side with knee on shoulder
    and with hands hold on top legs

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