Behavior and Handling

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Week 1 of College . . . Feels good to that over.
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First . . .

• W2 Quiz

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W2 Behavior Handling
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Why study behavior/handling?

• Live comfortably with the domestic animal
• Reduce stress/increase productivity
• Maximize human safety

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Outcomes. . .

• Describe categories of innate and learned
  behaviors.
• Explain principles of moving livestock with
  minimal stress.
• Identify some common methods of restraint and
  control.

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Behavior and HandlingReferences
Livestock Behaviour, Design of Facilitiesand
Humane Slaughter http//www.grandin.com/ By Dr.
Temple Grandin, Colorado State Univ.

• Animal Behaviour.net
• http//animalbehaviour.net/index.htm
• Website collection by Dr. Paul McGreevy, Univ of
  Sidney.

US Meat Industry www.animalhandling.org/
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Behavior

• The way animal reacts to a stimulus
• Behavior P G E GE
• The discipline of behavior is called what?

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Learned Behaviors

• Habituation (desensitization)
• Conditioningcue, response, reward
• Extinction reinforcement not continued
• Imprinting

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Categories of Innate Animal Behavior

• Ingestive
• Eliminative
• Shelter Seeking
• Investigative
• Agonistic
• Sexual
• Mother Offspring
• Social organization/ dominance hierarchy

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Innate behavior can be used to accomplish lower
stress handling.

• Flight Response
• Gregarious

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Understanding Flight Zone and Point of Balance

• Flight Zone and Point of Balance
• What are they? What defines them?

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Flight Zone and Point of Balance

• Application is . .

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• The Goal is for the animal to move itself with no
  force and minimal stress
• Consider
• distractions
• design
• restraint

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Common Distractions

• Puddle reflections
• Chain noise
• Shadows
• High pitch noises
• Air drafts blowing in face
• Fan blade movement
• Objects on the floor
• Drain grates
• Misplaced light
• Dead end wall
• Disagreeable odors

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Common Distractions
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Common Distractions
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• Distractions with purpose . . .

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Design
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Restraint and Control
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and for canines
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and for equines . . .
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NPPC Presentation

• Swine Handling for Pork Producers

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Homework for this week

• Reference http//animalbehaviour.net/index.htm
• Pick 2 1 from A-C, one from D-F.
• A.cattle, B.sheep, C. swine, D. horse, E. dog and
  F. cat.
• Read the chapter for each species listed and
  highlight the following topics for
• 1. Social organization and dominance hierarchies
• 2. Sexual behavior
• 3. Maternal-offspring behavior
• 4. Abnormal behavior pick one interesting
  example

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ERS (The Wheat Pressure Box)
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