Livestock handling specialist and Associate Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Dr. Grandin designs handling facilities and works with livestock producers to use behavioral principles to reduce stress on animals during handling.

In this 30 minute video lecture, Low Stress Handling of pigs, Dr. Grandin discusses behavioral principles which will help improve productivity and preserve meat quality. This video covers the following subjects:

• How to identify distractions that make pigs balk. Removing distractions improves pig movement.

• Flight zone principles for moving pigs.

• How to improved productivity by reducing the animal's fear of people.

• Tips on safe boar handling.

• Design of loading ramps for pigs.

• Ways to reduce meat quality problems with PSE and bloodsplash.

• Discussion of the animal welfare issue.

• Ways to reduce heat stress.

This video would be ideal for training employees on pig farms and for teaching in swine production classes.

Programs on the DVD:

1. Low Stress Handling of Pigs (30 min)

2. Handling of Stunning Pigs at the Meat Plant (30 min)

3. Implementing Animal Welfare Auditing Programs (30 min)

4. Best practices DVD slide show>

The program on handling and stunning of pigs can be used to train employees at slaughter plants and it would also be ideal for meat science classes. Some of the topics that are covered are:

• Improving pig movement by removing distractions that cause balking

• Explain the importance of producers walking finishing pens to get pigs accustomed to handling

• The use of welfare friendly driving aids such as flags

• Principles of electrical stunning

• Principles of CO₂ stunning

• How to determine that pigs remain completely insensible after stunning.

The program on Implementing Animal Welfare Auditing Programs covers:

• The importance of using objective scoring

• Explains the American Meat Institute's objective scoring system for evaluating animal welfare in meat plants

• Discusses how similar objective scoring methods can be applied to on farm welfare audits

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