2.2 Animal handling and safety

• Forms of animal handling in the community, including inhumane treatment
• Structures used for safe handling of animals
• Tools and equipment for safe handling: halter, restraining rope, bull ring, lead stick
• Ensuring the safety of persons handling animals
• Ensuring the welfare and safety of the animals

• examine the forms of animal handling in the community
• describe the structures used to ensure safety in handling domestic animals
• use tools and equipment to ensure safety in handling domestic animals
• explain ways of ensuring the safety of persons handling domestic animals
• participate in promoting the safety of domestic animals in the community

“How can we ensure safety when handling animals?”

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1. Handling animals safely and humanely
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The structures and tools for safe animal handling, how to keep the handler safe, and the humane treatment that keeps the animal safe too.
2. Forms of animal handling in the community
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Daily and occasional handling jobs in Kenyan homesteads and markets, and how to recognise inhumane treatment versus humane methods.
3. Structures for safe handling
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How a handling yard works: collecting pen, forcing pen, race, crush, spray race or dip, and loading ramp, plus bomas and the milking parlour.
4. Using handling tools safely
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How to put on a halter, use a restraining rope, and lead a bull with a ring and lead stick, plus hobbles and nose grips - tools as control, never as weapons.
5. Approach, flight zone and the kick zone
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How cattle and other stock see the world: flight zone, point of balance at the shoulder, blind spot, and why the handler stands at the side.
6. Keeping the handler safe
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Hazards to people, PPE, high-risk animals, zoonoses at a simple level, and why you never work a bull alone.
7. Animal welfare and the five freedoms
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The five freedoms as a practical checklist, Kenyan law, draught-donkey and transport tests, and why stressed stock produce less.
8. Handling different species safely
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   The right hold for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, poultry and draught donkeys - because a cow crush is not a rabbit grip.
9. Promoting animal safety in the community
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Example, teaching, discouraging cruelty and reporting it; how to write an excursion that suggests real improvements.