Humane Livestock Handling: Understanding livestock behavior and building facilities for healthier animals

We are planning a livestock corral. This book provides multiple levels of information for us to consider. Includes plans, how to’s and even why by Ms. Grandin. Perfect!

Amazing read that puts basic cattle and livestock behavior and psychology into words! Even if you are never going to care for or own cattle or any livestock, the first few chapters of this book are amazing in explaining cattle breed and temperment and makes you self-aware about how your posture and gestures can drive cattle in certain directions or allow you to gain their trust. This book has many illustrations and gives diagrams about how to build corrals and handling chutes that are humane and cause less stress and increase safety for the animals and handlers. Plans on building are included in detail! Use this book to build a handling facility for your livestock, or improve upon an existing one, of if you're just working in a job that involves rounding up livestock into pens-- reading this book is a must!

Excellent book!! Beginning with how animals perceive the world and outside threats, then moving into how genetics and early experiences affect an animal's temperament, the author explains how to handle livestock using the animals' instincts and minimize stress. Over half of the book is devoted to creating low-stress handling systems and facility plans. This is a very useful book for larger-scale livestock operations. For smaller-scale farmers, I would suggest the book"Temple Grandin's Guide to Working With Farm Animals." I highly recommend this book. Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

Dr. Temple Grandin's book on Humane Livestock Handling is a definitive book and helps anyone reading it.

This is the definitive Author in handling you Cattle if you want to do it rite. The book is a must read if you care about your animals. She is the best and it's an excellent resource

Enjoyed the book

This is a book that should sell for much higher for those with livestocks particularlly cattle. I was looking for a book or something alluding to building a cattle corral. Well this book is information overload for my measlly (sp) quest. I enjoyed and continue to enjoy this book, I just hope my sistes does not try to steal this book since she married into a family with cattle. The information within the book provided me with answers to my questions. Over all the book is a whole lot more then just hints, tips and methods of building a cattle corral.

This book has a lot of information. It is written very well, and there are a lot of very good illustrations. However, this is not for the small scale cattleman completely. I wish I had known that the illustrated guide to cattle compounds are more for the large scale cattle operation rather than the small scale. We are an extremely small operation. We neither have the room, money or the need for the facilities in the book. If I had 200+ head this would be helpful, but with our single digit herd we just don't have the need for such grand plans.

I have only dipped into parts of this book, but it is the one that Temple uses for her undergraduate students in Colorado. The drawings are excellent, and everything is done with precision and clarity, just like Temple's lectures and books in general. This book was cheaper on Amazon in the UK than in the US for some reason, but I live in the UK so that was convenient.When you read Temple Grandin's books (I have read others of hers on animals and autism), it sometimes seems like she is just stating the obvious. But in fact what her books do is explain things clearly, without any dressing or "flannel". This comes across in her public speaking and her lecture style too. She is passionate about her work, and she conveys this in written form too. Truly a remarkable woman!

A great book for any cattle handler from the expert. Many diagrams and drawings for stock management facilities. Lots of hints and tips from experience on how to handle your cattle safely and without stress from someone who has spent a lifetime working with cattle.. Have learned masses. Wonderfully illustrated.

I bought this book because I wanted to make a cattle handling system that would work, but the drawings are unbelievably complicated and Im not sure Ill be able to use them. As far as the information on animal handling is concerned, Ive only just started reading it so I cant say how good it is., but Im very interested in the concept.

Excelente libre. Imprescindible para todos los que llevamos muchos años manejando ganado.Me ha dado muchas ideas nievas que voy a poner en marcha de inmediato

La Biblia para el ganadero de cualquier país. Traducirla al castellano sería un acierto. Adoro a Temple Grandin y sus conocimientos. Los intento poner en práctica a diario en mi granja. Gracias por este libro...