Whit Hibbard and Dawn Hnatow

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Beef Production
Emotional Fitness in Newly Received Cattle
Is there a correlation between the emotional well-being of livestock and their performance? The short answer is yes.
September 01, 2021 02:22 PM
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Whit Hibbard and Dawn Hnatow
In Figure A (above), we see a calf that was being forced into a waiting trailer go totally off-line and flip into survival mode. What if that $1,000 calf had broken a leg? 
Beef Production
Low-Stress Trailer Loading
As with loading out, trailer loading is another production event that can be high stress on both the animals and people, but it needn’t be that way.
April 30, 2021 03:47 PM
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Whit Hibbard and Dawn Hnatow
Figure A. By preforming a dry run across the open scale, the animals learn the route, that there is a way out, and nothing bad will happen to them.
Beef Production
Scale Loading
These tips will make it not only easier on the cattle and handlers, but they will increase efficiency. Efficiency is important because scale loading delays cost by about $20 per minute in unnecessary shrink.
January 05, 2021 03:27 PM
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Whit Hibbard and Dawn Hnatow
Naive calves effortlessly flow around the handler and up the chute because the BudBox makes our idea the animals’ idea.
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Building a BudBox: Part One
Unlike the other crowd pen designs, the BudBox is unique in how it makes our idea the animals’ idea so they willing do what we want.
November 12, 2020 08:28 PM
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Whit Hibbard and Dawn Hnatow