Restraining techniques of Animals
- 2. Restraining of Farm Animals Prepared by, Vintage Group Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi.
- 3. VINTAGE GROUP Khawaja Taha (18-Arid-2350) Naveed Bhai (18-Arid-2238) Intro, Purposes & Precautions Hobbles, Chemical, Anti-kick bars M.Waqas(18-Arid-2207) Shiza Atif (18-Arid-2325) Restraining of Goat Haltering & Casting Hajra Kanwal (18-Arid-1950) Crush, Nose Holder Rida Fatima (18-Arid-2269) Nisa-ur-Rehman (18-Arid-2246) Restraining techniques of Sheep Horse, Donkey Talha Qureshi (18-Arid-) Tehreem Eraf (18-Arid-2365) Poultry, Camel Sidra Khaliq (18-Arid-2329) Sumbal and Aleha.
- 4. What is Restraining? Art to handle animals. Humane and safe techniques to limit some or all of an animal’s normal voluntary movement. Types of Restraints 1-Physical Restraints 2- Chemical Restraints 3-Psychological Restraints 4- Electro-Immobilization
- 5. Purpose Of Restraining ● Done for examination, collection of samples, drug administration, therapy and manipulation. ● The method should provide least restraint to minimize stress, pain, suffering and fear for the animal. ● Restraining is also done to ensure Human Safety. ● It ensures that you can safely examine your animal without causing injury to animal or to you.
- 6. Precautions during Restraining 1-Animals should be approached in a calm manner, avoiding sudden movements, such as waving of hands and arms. 2-Stay alert at all times and observe the animal’s response. 3-Restrain animals properly. 4-Wear personal protective equipments. 5-Have an exit strategy.
- 7. Restraining of Cattles Techniques; Various Methods are used for restraining of cattles depending upon the purpose. Some of them are described below; 1-Haltering 2-Casting 7-Hobbles 3-Crush 4-Nose holder 8-Chemical Restraints 5-Drugs 6-Kick Bars
- 8. 1-Haltering 1. Select 12’ to 15’ (feet) length of half-inch, three stranded rope. 2. Any type of rope from cotton to nylon will do the trick. However your choice depends upon strength needed, durability required and price of the rope.
- 9. Applying a cow Halter
- 10. Advantages Disadvantages 1-Rope Halter hardly weighs anything since there are no iron parts like buckles and rings for attaching your rope. 2-You can easily control animal. 3-It is cheap, effective and easy to use. 1-Halter might get caught on an object and injures the animal in some fashion. 2-Halters must be placed correctly otherwise they will do more harm than good. 3-Too much pressure leads to injuries.
- 11. Before removing halter. After halter is removed. Injured Cow whose halter was cutting into her nose, was saved.
- 12. 2-Casting Refers to a technique in which we use rope to make large animals lie down and become recumbent, with minimum efforts. There are two methods of casting; 1-Reuff’s Method 2-Criss-Cross method
- 13. Casting of Cow
- 14. Reuff’s Burley’s
- 15. 3-Front Leg Hobble 1. In this method the front leg is raised for examination or treatment. 2. This restraint can also be used to make a cow stand still and to avoid her from kicking with a hind limb. 3. A rope is used to form a loop and the other end is passed over the neck where it should be held by an assistant so that it can be released quickly if the cow starts to go down.
- 16. Hobbles,
- 17. 5-Chemical Restraint 1. Also known as “Psychopharmacologic Agents”. 2. A form of medical restraint in which a drug is used to restrict the freedom or movement of a patient or in some case to sedate an animal. 3. These are used in emergency, acute and psychiatric settings to control unruly patients who are interfering with their care or who are otherwise harmful to themselves or others in their vicinity. 4. I.e Alcohols, Anti-depressant, Opioids, Anti-psychotics, etc
- 18. 6-Anti-Kick Bars ● Having said that, i have been witness to new heifer almost destroying parlours because they do not like being milked. ● In these situations a kick bar is really effective. ● Anti-Kick bars stop her from kicking.
- 19. 7-Cattle Crush Definition ; “A strong cage for holding cattle safely while they are examined, marked, or given veterinary treatment”. A crush uses a current of 9 Volts so that animal does not hit crush walls.
- 20. Purposes of Crush 1. To hold an animal still to minimize the risk of injury to both the operator and the animal. 2. Cow may be made to suckle calves in crush. 3. Permanent fixture in slaughterhouses. 4. Special crushes are made for special tasks, like automatic scanning, foot-trimming, clipping the hair under belly, etc.
- 21. Purposes of Crush 5- A good crush will reduce stress on both, thus ensuring safer and more productive environment. 6- Cattle restraints are designed to divert attention from where you want to treat and prevent kicking and make possible some special procedures.
- 22. This Technique is majorly used to restrain male cattle kept for breeding and beef purpose. In this method metal ring is fixed between walls of nostrils which contains sensitive tissues and restrain the animal from unnecessary movements. 8-Nose Lead Technique
- 23. Restraining of sheep Techniques; 1- A well-trained dog 2- Sheep squeezing into a narrow chute
- 24. Restraining of sheep 3- Holding a Sheep 4-Parting Wool 5-Setting Up
- 25. Restraining of sheep 6-Hoof trimming from, 7- Oral examination from, setup position . setup position.
- 26. 8-Shepherd's crook 9- Gramble Trimming of hoof’s
- 27. Restraining Of Goat There are many methods for restraining a goat for examination, vaccination, or veterinary surgeries. 1-Tagging; Procedure 1- Control animal without stressing them. 2- Hold kid between knees. 3- Use a chute a mature animal.
- 28. Trimming of Hoof Procedure; 1. Hoof trimming best done in squeeze chute, or by positioning or tying the animal next to a wall or fence. 2. The person should face the animal tail, leans down and picks up the front leg at pastern joint. 3. For trimming back hooves, the hind legs should be brought back straight behind the goat.
- 29. Restraining Of Equidae Family 1-Horse (Equus caballus) It is necessary to opt for the right restraining technique for Horses as they have different breeds and behaviours; such as some are spooky while other are tame. It is always better to approach them from left side, don’t approach directly from the front. There are three main techniques of restraining; 1-Physical 2-Verbal 3-Chemical
- 30. Physical Restraints 1- Halter and Lead Rope 2-Chain over Nose and Lip 3-Twitching with hand 4-Twitching with Device 5-Lifting Limb and Stocks
- 31. 1-Halter and Lead Rope A Physical Restraint should never be attempted without a Halter and lead rope with someone holding the horse. Precautions; 1-Never wrap around your hand, arm or any other body part. 2-Never tie a Horse unless you know, it is accustomed to being tied.
- 32. 2-Chain over Nose and Lip Chain over nose provides, Chain over Lips are more severe, additional control. often applied on breeding Stallions
- 33. 3-Twitching with Hands Hands are used to twitch the horse for restraining, it can be either; Neck Twitch Ear Twitch Nose Twitch
- 34. 4-Twitching with Device Considerations; 1-Never let go of twitch because, it can injure you or the horse. 2-Size Counts-the longer the twitch,the more control you have. 3-Do not leave twitch for too long it can damage your horse. 4-Never put switch device on ears, use Chemical Restraints instead.
- 35. 5-Lifting Limbs and Stocks 1. Lifting a limb may be helpful to allow examination of weight-bearing limbs. Use with caution Horses are stronger than you. 2. Stocks are really helpful for renal exams and reproductive evaluations. 3. But they are not foolproof- Horses may try to jump out or go down.
- 36. Restraining of Donkey Donkeys are also restrained like horses by using many techniques, some of them are mentioned below; 1-Knots 2-Halter 3-Head Collar 4-Chin Holder 5-Blind Folding
- 37. Holding & Restraining Technique of Poultry. #Correct chook handling techniques 1) To handle a chook you need to be calm & sensible. 2)You need to talk softly to the chook & keep talking gently to it while you catch it.To catch it you need to try carefully and quickly grab hold of it by the legs and body.
- 38. 3)Once you have the bird hold it by putting your middle finger in between its legs and squeeze the legs so the chook doesn’t go flying away. 4)Stroke your chook gently with your other hand.To put the chook down simply make sure its feet are touching the ground and reverse the catching process. 5)If your chook goes crazy do not panic just firmly hold onto your chook and talk quietly to reassure it.If you feel scared while holding your chook don’t worry your confidence will grow and the chook will quiet down over time.
- 40. Restraining of Camels 1. Camel have been domesticated for thousands of years and are easily managed if accustomed to handling by 2. people. 3. The camel is able to kick or strike in any direction, 4. Thus the camel should be maintained in sternal recumbency, kept within stocks or hobbed to limit the swing of the leg.
- 41. Restraining Of Camel Techniques; There are two main types of restraining; 1-Physical Restraining 2-Chemical Restraining
- 42. 1-Physical Restraining Physical restraint is further divided into sub-techniques, which are following; 1-Halter 2-Body harness 3-Nose Plugs 4-Stocks 5-Hobbles
- 43. a-Rope Halter 1. Halters consist of a strong rope halter. 2. A traditional nose guard is used to protect camel eyes. 3. Homemade rope halter is primarily used for restraining young camels, while use of nose-peg and nose-rings are common techniques used in adult animals. 4. Rope halters are ideal for training camels, expedition work, commercial operations and riding.
- 44. 2-Chemical Restraining Chemical Sedation utilizes the same drugs as used in cattles, buffalos, and horses. With special considerations for dosages. For Examples; Xylazine, Butorphanol, Detomidine, Meditomedine, etc.
- 45. Advantages of Restraining 1-Prevent from injury 2-safety for animal and holder 3-Maintain health 4-proper control for trainers 5-We get work from animals
- 46. Disadvantages of Restraining 1-Some equipments can cause serious injuries to the animal. 2-Unprotected equipment can results in transfer of many diseases that can affect the meat and milk production of the animals. 3-During restraining if animal get hyper it can also cause serious injuries to the restrainers 4-If we do not restrained the animal during slaughtering it can cause serious damage to the person controlling it