Animal Husbandry
Animal Husbandry
Prey Animals
Prey animal birthing and birthing assistance
Cattle
Birthing patience:
- Lessons from a first calf heifer (Duration - 11::11)
Intervention(s) (Calving Time Management for Beef Cows and Heifers - PDF):
- When to intervene when calving first-calf heifers (Duration - 4::42)
- How to palpate beef cattle for pregnancy diagnosis (Duration - 11::33)
- Proper placement of pull chains for calving assistance (Duration - 1::12)
- How to intervene with a difficult calving (Duration - 6::17)
- Using a Calf Jack (Duration - 6::35)
- How to (and not to) resuscitate newborn calves (Duration - 2::32)
- Pulling a HUGE Calf BACKWARDS! (Duration - 13::30)
- How to use an esophageal feeder (Duration - 11::43
- Dead calf stuck inside! See how we pulled it out | Overdue calf | Malpositioned | Dystocia (Duration - 5::35)
- How to pull 2 dead calves out of 1 cow (Duration - 21::11)
"Downer-cow" management and care:
- Assessing the down cow - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 4::51)
- Moving the down cow - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 1::42)
- Caring for the down cow - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 3::46)
- Rolling the down cow - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 2::39)
- The down cow nursing area - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 3::20)
- Correct use of hip lifters (Duration - 3::09)
- Lifting the down cow - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 4::25)
- Lifting with a hip clamp - Dr. Phil Poulton (Duration - 3::13)
- Downer cow lifting using sling - Dr Sridhar NB 1 (Duration - 2::10)
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
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.)
- Thoracic Squeeze in calves (Duration - 1::42)
- Putting the Squeeze on "Dummy" Calves (Duration - 2::05)
- Madigan Squeeze 09112017 (Duration - 4::01)
- Newborn Horse Syndrome Suggests Links to Childhood Autism (Duration - 3::45)
- The Evolution of the Madigan Squeeze with Dr John Madigan (Duration - 1:00::27)