Animal Husbandry

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Animal Husbandry

Prey Animals

Prey animal birthing and birthing assistance

Cattle

Birthing patience:

Intervention(s) (Calving Time Management for Beef Cows and Heifers - PDF):

"Downer-cow" management and care:

Helping your calf to nurse:

  • Calf nursing tips (Duration - 12::46 [Min. 3::40 is where specific "help nurse" segment begins])

(Quotes from video description section: "Calf vigor and nursing issues are very heritable..."; "Through selection and culling, we are proud to say that we have almost completely eliminated calf vigor issues..."; and, "The best way to address this is to try to eliminate it from your herd through selection, breeding, and culling.")

Sheep

Goats

Horses

Prey animal "after-birthing" related care

The "Madigan Squeeze" (Instructions to use the Madigan foal squeeze method - PDF):

(Note 1.: While this technique was developed out of working with foals, it has been demonstrated to be equally helpful to all prey animals listed above here.)

(Note 2.: While the syndrome[s] for which the Madigan Squeeze can be helpful most often occur after cesarean [C-section] deliveries, the syndrome[s] can, and often enough do, occur after any birthing situation in which the prey animal does not experience "'sufficient' dwell-time" in the birthing canal.)

  1. Thoracic Squeeze in calves (Duration - 1::42)
  2. Putting the Squeeze on "Dummy" Calves (Duration - 2::05)
  3. Madigan Squeeze 09112017 (Duration - 4::01)
  4. Newborn Horse Syndrome Suggests Links to Childhood Autism (Duration - 3::45)
  5. The Evolution of the Madigan Squeeze with Dr John Madigan (Duration - 1:00::27)