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.
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
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.
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
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.
39.
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.
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
