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Proactive Risk Management: The Key To Improving Animal Welfare

Dr. Temple GRANDIN

Livestock Handling and Behavior

Dept. of Animal Sciences

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO   80523   USA

Tel: +1 970-229-0703

 Fax: +1 970-491-5326

www.grandin.com

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“How To Audit Animal Welfare During Transport”

Temple GRANDIN, PhD.

Professor of Animal Science 

Colorado State University                                                                                         

Livestock Handling and Behavior

Grandin Livestock Systems

This presentation provided the tools to manage and monitor animal welfare during transportation. Dr. Grandin shared her current animal transportation audit program, spoke on the importance of fitness of animals for transport and how to establish a program that includes accountability for losses during transport.

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Dr. Grandin is a designer of livestock handling facilities and a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. Facilities she has designed are located in the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. In North America, almost half of the cattle are handled in a center track restrainer system that she designed for meat plants. Curved chute and race systems she has designed for cattle are used worldwide and her writings on the flight zone and other principles of grazing animal behavior have helped many people to reduce stress on their animals during handling.

 

She has also developed an objective scoring system for assessing handling of cattle and pigs at meat plants. This scoring system is being used by many large corporations to improve animal welfare. Other areas of research are: cattle temperament, environmental enrichment for pigs, reducing dark cutters and bruises, bull fertility, training procedures, and effective stunning methods for cattle and pigs at meat plants.

 

She obtained her B.A. at Frankin Pierce College and her M.S. in Animal Science at Arizona State University. Dr. Grandin received her Ph.D in Animal Science from the University of Illinois in 1989. Today she teaches courses on livestock behavior and facility design at Colorado State University and consults with the livestock industry on facility design, livestock handling, and animal welfare. She has appeared on television shows such as 20/20, 48 Hours, CNN Larry King Live, Prime Time Live, the Today Show, and many shows in other countries. She has been featured in People Magazine, the New York Times, Forbes, U.S. News and World Report, Time Magazine, the New York Times book review, and Discover magazine. Interviews with Dr. Grandin have been broadcast on National Public Radio. She has also authored over 300 articles in both scientific journals and livestock periodicals on animal handling, welfare, and facility design. She is the author of "Thinking in Pictures", "Livestock Handling and Transport," and "Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals." Her book "Animals in Translation" was a New York Times best seller.

Mr. Erik LIEBEGOTT

President

TransporTech LLC

P.O. Box 2007

Brockton, MA USA

Tel: +1 866.99.TTECH

Fax: +1 508-436-6768

eliebegott@transportech.com

www.transportech.com

Erik is the Founder and President of TransporTech, LLC, a company that is dedicated to the safe and proper transport of animals worldwide. 

He has over 12 years of logistics experience which includes positions held at Quick International Courier and TNT Express Worldwide. 

He is a graduate of Norwich University and currently resides with his wife and two children outside of Tampa, FL.

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“Being Proactive: Preplanning to Develop A Unique System

of Transport for Lab Animals”

Erik LIEBEGOTT

President

TransporTech LLC

When the need to transport an animal(s) arises, many choices are available today.  It is not necessarily difficult to find a service to transport them, but it may take a considerable amount of time, energy and resources to find an appropriate carrier.  Your need to develop a formal plan will depend greatly on the size and/or frequency of shipment as well as the species shipped.

Ms. Kendra LEWKOW

Supervisor

Anheuser-Busch

Clydesdales SeaWorld San Diego

500 Sea World Drive

San Diego, CA  92109 USA

Tel: +1 619-226-3898

Fax: +1 619-226-3697

Kendra.Lewkow@anheuser-busch.com

Kendra Lewkow, Supervisor of the San Diego Hitch has been with the Budweiser Clydesdales for 15 years. During her tenure, she has worked Sea World of Texas Hitch, the West Coast Hitch and the Sea World California Hitch since 1998.

Her travels with the Budweiser Clydesdales have taken her to 30 states and into Canada. She has traveled approximately 350,000 miles in her career so far with Anheuser-Busch.

As Supervisor of the San Diego Hitch she maintains a “Class A “ CDL and is ultimately responsible for ten Budweiser Clydesdales traveling ten months a year.

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“Planning Ahead: First Class Travel for

 Budweiser's Clydesdale Horses”

Kendra LEWKOW

Supervisor

Clydesdales SeaWorld San Diego

Anheuser-Busch

Traveling hundreds of thousands of miles a year, the Budweiser Clydesdales must have a coordinated travel plan.

This presentation covered the stringent guidelines set up by Anheuser–Busch for travel with the Budweiser Clydesdales taking into account distance, layover facilities, and disease prevention.

The presentation also covered some of the features of Anheuser-Busch’s custom built trailers to transport an iconic corporate symbol.

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Tianna MacINNES

International Standards Officer

Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Canada

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

59 Camelot Dr., Room 1409

Ottawa, ON K1A 0Y9

Tel: +1 613-221-4395

macinnest@inspection.gc.ca

www.inspection.gc.ca

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“Industry Biosecurity Precautions: A Look at Bird Flu”

Tianna MacINNES  

International Standards Officer

Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Canada

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

The presentation provided a brief update on the current distribution of avian influenza. The virulent H5N1 form of this disease continues to spread throughout continents and affecting new regions. 

However, evidence shows that when biosecurity measures are applied, the infection is prevented or controlled. More often than not, the major cause of the spread of animal disease is the lack of proper veterinary infrastructure capable of early detection and rapid response to disease outbreaks.

In this context, the importance of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) and its international standards in the control and prevention of avian influenza was highlighted.

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As the International Standards Officer in the Office of the Chief Veterinary Officer of Canada, Tianna serves as the primary point of contact at the national and international level for the management of the Government of Canada’s contributions to the elaboration of science based standards for animal welfare and the protection of animal, public and eco-system health under the auspices of the World Organization for Animal Health (O.I.E.).

 

In this capacity, she also serves to ensure full consideration of the strategic directions of the OIE in the development and convergence of Canada’s positions to a number of other international fora including the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Committee of the World Trade Organization and the Codex Alimentarius of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

 

Tianna provides strong leadership in undertaking awareness initiatives with respect to OIE processes and coordinating inclusive consultations with other federal Departments and Agencies, Provinces, the academic community and regulated stakeholders within Canada to provide an understanding of the standards and recommendations developed by the OIE to control and/or eradicate emerging and re-emerging animal and zoonotic disease.

 

Prior to her appointment in April 2006, Ms. MacInnes served in several positions including as an issues coordination and liaison officer between the Office of the President of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Office of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, as an intellectual property management officer, and in the Audit, Evaluation and Risk Oversight Branch.

 

Ms. MacInnes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Laboratory Science from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia and is currently completing a Masters of Public Administration through Dalhousie University.

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