Bovine Restraint

Question 1

What should you never rope a cow without?

Answer 1

A plan for where you are going to tie the animal up and a quick release knot

Question 2

Advantages of a manual headgate

Answer 2

Animal enter much better and it can hold animals from birth to adulthood

Question 3

Disadvantages of a manual headgate

Answer 3

Easer to let animal escape, difficult to work animals alone, physically harder

Question 4

Advantages of an automatic headgate

Answer 4

Easier to work alone and more difficult to let animals escape

Question 5

Disadvantages of the automatic headgate

Answer 5

Automatic is a lie, animals must less likely to stick head in easily, cannot have animal moving into chute while one is exiting, increase likelihood of choking if animal goes down

Question 6

Headchute

Answer 6

More expensive than headgates, better access to the animal and better restraint

Question 7

Where are headlocks the most common?

Answer 7

Common to dairy’s almost exclusively -> its where you feed the animals

Question 8

Tailjack

Answer 8

Only way is straight up over the back of the animal and it will stop 95% of the kicking

Question 9

List a few ways of animal restraint

Answer 9

Halter, tailjack, nose leads, neck extender, dart guns

Question 10

After you dart an animal when should you rope them?

Answer 10

When the animal is down with the head turned back into flank or is in lateral recumbency, otherwise they’ll run away

Question 11

What is the downside of a bud box?

Answer 11

Someone has to be in with the animals

Question 12

What is the most common design flaw of chutes?

Answer 12

Chutes TOO WIDE

Question 13

When foot trimming what would be the disadvantages of using a layover chute in a pregnant cow?

Answer 13

Very slight change of aborting calves

Question 14

What are the 2 cardinal rules of pulling a calf?

Answer 14

1. Don’t pull until 3 parts coming out
2. Don’t pull a calf in the chute