The Five Foundations of Low-Stress Livestock Handling

1. Mindset: Mindset is how you think about your cattle. Traditionally, livestock handlers view working cattle as a job that has to be done, with the approach of “this is how we’ve always done it,” or “cattle are stupid and we have to fight them to get them to do what we want.” Stockmanship requires…

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Psychology

1. Keep animals in a normal frame of mind This is the essential part of all animal training. Their minds need to be in some state of homeostasis and not to stressed so that they can think. Thinking is a cognitive state, and it is there that they learn to solve problems thru an understanding of…

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