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Yeah, it does look like it needs a bit of work to improve cow flow, doesn't it.
Some of the images there are disturbing, tbh. The lifting of cows by the head is never ideal and is usually the absolute last option. Looking at it again today, surely a hip lifter would be a much easier and humane way of lifting a cow out of a compromised position. I have occasion to use one when a cow gets stuck in a cubicle and it's a much simpler option and less stressful for man and beast.
I wonder how much training and/or supervision those guys had. As someone posted earlier, it is most likely clips taken over a long period of time but being portrayed as an everyday occurrence but someone in a position of authority surely had to have known what was occurring there?
You say that about hip lifters but they were being condemned over here last year on the back of an edited video.