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Jennifer WOODS Reflected J Livestock J Woods Livestock Services RR #1 Blackie, Alberta T0L 0J0 Canada Tel: +1 403-684-3008
www.homepage.mac.com/ Livestock Handling Specialist Jennifer Woods of Blackie, Alberta obtained an Animal Science degree from Colorado State University in 1992. While attending university Jennifer studied under Dr. Temple Grandin and has continued to work with Dr. Grandin on livestock handling and welfare auditing. Jennifer has extensive experience with cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, elk and bison. Currently, Jennifer works closely with Alberta Farm Animal Care and consults to the livestock industry across North America and Europe. Jennifer has been delivering livestock handling courses including Livestock Emergency Response, Livestock Behavior and Handling and Livestock Handling for Youth since 1997. She has certified Canadian universities for the Canadian Council on Animal Care and developed a livestock behavior and handling curriculum for colleges. [ Back to Top ] |
When
Trailers Tip:
Jennifer WOODS,
B.Sc.
During a normal year in Alberta, we have approximately 500 loaded livestock liners on our highways on any given day moving over 213,000 head of livestock. Unfortunately, in Western Canada motor vehicle accidents involving livestock transporters occur more often than most of us would like to believe. Since 1998 Jennifer Woods has been training first responders, truckers and producers on how to be prepared for an accident and what to do when faced with an incident involving the transportation of livestock. Through her hands on experience responding to accidents and AFAC's Livestock Incident Tracking program, Jennifer has been able to create an effective program that increases the safety of the responders, improves the welfare of the animals and decreases the monetary losses seen at these accidents. Jennifer provided an overview of how to be prepared for accidents involving livestock, problems you can face on scene, who to resource and how to work effectively as a team.
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Calico Beef Consulting Box 12805 Las Vegas, NV 89112
PH (702)
566-1456 Tim O'Byrne has gathered most of his beef cattle and horse experience while working on some of North America’s largest commercial cow-calf and feedlot operations. He started his consulting business near Calgary, Alberta in 1994. Initially, Tim developed high school and college level extension courses on livestock handling and compliance with agricultural law. He now focuses much of his attention on livestock transportation issues. He worked with Alberta Farm Animal Care Association and the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association to develop the Cattle Handling & Hauling course in 1997. The course has been utilized by the regulatory, beef packing, transport and cattle production sectors with over 650 participants taking part in the half-day sessions. Tim is recognized as an expert witness in livestock related litigation. He has published a book on the working cattle dog and is a frequent contributor to Western Horseman Magazine. In 2003 he relocated his consulting business to Las Vegas, NV. [ Back to Top ] |
Training the Transporter
Tim
O’BYRNE
The Alberta Farm Animal Care Association presented an update on its new Quality Livestock Transport program (QLT), a comprehensive certified training course that deals with livestock transported in the province. The program is being developed in response to requests from transporters and industry. Components of the course include livestock handling methods, understanding animal welfare, deciding which animals are fit for transport, euthanasia protocol, emergency response procedure, federal and provincial regulation and much more. The National Pork Board’s popular Trucker Quality Assurance program (TQA) will be integrated into QLT with Alberta-based material added. Participants of the hog component will become certified TQA drivers.
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BROADENING YOUR HORIZONS:
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Livestock Transport Consultant 3, Fairview North Brewham Bruton, Somerset, BA10 0JT UK Tel: +44 (0) 1749 850497 Fax: +44 (0)1749 850752 Eddie Harper is a Livestock Transport Consultant; he has been involved in the transport of animals for over 40 years which has allowed him to build up a wealth of specialist knowledge. He designs and runs training courses in Livestock Transport and among those he has given talks to are DEFRA, CVL and Local Authorities on the Welfare of Animals during transport. Lately Eddie has been closely involved with Silsoe Research and the Roslin Institute in the research into ventilation on livestock vehicles. Eddie has given many papers at conferences and seminars in the UK and beyond, including AATA conferences. He is a Director of Assured British Meats (ABM), Chairman of the Road Haulage Associations Livestock Hauliers Group and also, at present, is a Member of the Farm Animal Welfare Council. [ Back to Top ] |
Comparing the North
American and
Eddie HARPER
In 2004, Europe expanded from fifteen to twenty five countries which makes decision making even more difficult as many countries have their own cultures – so to make a single piece of legislation for the transport of animals to cover all these countries has been an extremely difficult and time consuming exercise. Some of this legislation has been to appease the Animal Welfare Groups as this has been a very large factor over the past few years in Europe - but the main question would be - does all this legislation actually improve the Welfare of the Animals? The presentation was an overview of UK and European livestock transport (The present legislation that we transport animals on, and the new regulation that is just coming out in Europe will be included). The main points of the presentation included – permissible hours to transport animals, driver training, ventilation and GPS tracking, all part of the new legislation to come out of Brussels this year. In Europe from April 4th we also have the Road Transport Directive. The presentation took a brief look at that directive and how it impinges on the livestock transport industry in the future in regard to animal transport in Continental Europe in conjunction with the new animal transport legislation.
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Senior Principal Research Scientist Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — Australia GPO Box 858 Canberra ACT 2601, Australia Tel: +61 2 6272-4051 Fax: + 61 2 6272-3150
David Adams has worked as a science advisor in the Australian Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry since 1990. His current focus is on veterinary public health and animal welfare. He obtained his degree in veterinary science from the University of Sydney in 1964 and worked in farm animal practice for several years before a long period of employment as an immunologist in Australia’s public science organization, the CSIRO. He has a doctorate degree in immunology from the University of Oxford. His interest in animal welfare commenced with laboratory animals. This continues with his membership the animal welfare committee of Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council. He has scientific publications in the areas of parasitology, immunology, and animal behavior. He has written reviews of the scientific aspects of laying hen welfare, animal transport and other topics in animal husbandry for the Australian government. [ Back to Top ] |
The Challenges for
Australian Livestock Transporters
Senior
Principal Research Scientist Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Livestock trucking has the same basic elements throughout the world; the trucks, the animals, the terrain, the climate, the man-made infrastructure of roads and communication, remoteness, and the business opportunity. Trucks have the same basic elements of wheels, crates, suspension, engines, steering, gearing and brakes. This sameness disappears when these things are put together in different parts of the world to cope with different demands. In fact, experience in one place does not translate completely to another, an important fact of life when world standards are being considered. A large part of Australia is tropical and its southern extremity lies at a similar latitude to Boston. Australia has a very large export trade in live animals. There is the so-called long-haul trade of sheep, cattle, goats and camels mainly to the Middle East and the so-called short haul trade of cattle, mainly from northern Australia to countries in south east Asia; Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. Cattle bred in northern Australia are grown out with agricultural by-products such as rice straw and pineapple waste supplemented with urea. The live export trade has strong internal integration and depends vitally on the trucking industry.
The presentation
dealt with the diverse Australian experience with livestock trucking.
Diversity comes from the types of animals transported, the distances
covered, the range of climatic conditions, the wide differences in road
conditions and the problem of remoteness in the “outback”. The talk
provided facts and figures, a snapshot of the impact of geography and
the connection between livestock transport and the large livestock
industries. [ PDF of PowerPoint Presentation ] 367 kb |
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