Endorsements:

Bud and Eunice Williams: " Nancy attended her first Bud Williams Stockmanship School in 1996. Back home she took videos of people moving pigs and brought them to us so that she and Bud could review them together. Nancy has been to several more schools over the years and has proven to be an excellent student. When they applied Bud’s methods, they said it was hard to believe that moving hogs could be that easy."

 

Curtis Possberg, BigSky Farms Inc.: I really enjoyed last Friday’s session.  I was pleasantly surprised by that because I initially thought “I’ve been working with pigs all my life, I know how to move them, why waste time teaching me what I already know?” 

The videos were especially helpful because I could see myself in them (good and bad).

For people just starting to work with pigs, the most stressful part would probably be understanding how to move pigs.  Your Low Stress Pig Handling principles should be mandatory for all stockpersons.

Thanks again,

 

"The Prairie Swine Centre: has made Nancy's course on pig handling a standard component of our staff training program. Even staff members with 15  years of experience found the course helpful. New graduate students arriving from around the world, each with different levels of experience in pig handling, find the course gets them off to a good start in pig handling techniques. I feel completely comfortable endorsing Nancy's course; it is a winner in our eyes."

Dr. John Patience
(When)President and CEO
Prairie Swine Centre Inc.
Saskatoon, SK. Canada

Temple Grandin: "The pig industry has produced its first "pig whisperer," a woman named Nancy Lidster, who has refined good pig-handling technique and produced videos and workshops. I hope her work will become better known.
From Dr. Grandin’s book, "Animals Make Us Human"; Note 18 for Chapter 6:Pigs

Sow Services Specialist: "Load time at one of our nurseries dropped from 2 1/2 hours to less than 1 hour after your Pig Handling Workshop"

Packing Industry Client: "We have continued to build on the foundation you helped lay and are proud to announce that we recently achieved a 100% score on Humane Hog Handling from an outside auditor."

Production Manager: "The staff has used you techniques for handling sows and weaned pigs and say it is less stress on the pigs and on themselves. There are less people involved in the weaning process which allows other tasks to be completed at the same time."

Letting movement flow..