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Course Details
SMS204 - Low-Stress Cattle Handling: Pen Checking

20 mins
Length:
This course discusses the importance of using low-stress cattle handling techniques during pen checking as a strategy to prevent accidents and improve cattle performance.
The objectives of this course are to:
Learn how to move within a pen while examining cattle in such a way that cattle learn to work for the handler in a low stress manner that makes them subsequently easier to handle.
Understand how applying basic low-stress practices makes examination and detection of sick cattle more thorough.
Identify and overcome some challenges when checking pens of cattle.
Curriculum:
Feedyard, ALL
Category:
Livestock, ALL
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