Livestock Handling

Moving cattle through a race is a negotiation. The handler uses body position, pressure on the flight zone, a flag or paddle, and timing, and the animal decides whether to walk forward or turn. Get it wrong and a half-ton animal balks, panics, or injures itself. This is a task where the environment pushes back.

Handling work in our footage includes sorting animals by weight or pen, loading onto trailers, restraining in a crush for treatment, tagging ears, trimming hooves, and walking sheep through gates with a dog. Each has its own choreography and its own failure modes.

Head cameras capture what the handler is watching and how they shift their stance. Fixed cameras around the yard or race capture the animal and the handler together. Streams are synchronized. Recording takes place across full working days on operating farms, abattoir lairages, and sale yards in five countries.

Deliveries break down into episodes: moving one group, loading one trailer, treating one animal. Steps are labeled in plain language and tagged success or failure, so a balk or an escape is marked. Human, animal, and tool tracking can be included. Data is delivered in your own schema to your own storage.

Each participant consented in writing and was paid, so the footage can be used to train models you ship. Samples arrive within a business day of a request.