Impact of maternal stress and nutrition on behavioural and physiological outcomes in young lambs

Authors: J. A. Rooke, G. Arnott, C. M. Dwyer, K. M. D. Rutherford

Publication/Journal: Animal Welfare

Keywords: animal welfare, gestation, offspring response, practical application, sheep, stress

2017

Evaluating the effect of semi-group housing of rabbit does on their offspring’s fearfulness: can we use the open-field test?

Authors: Stephanie Buijs, Frank André Maurice Tuyttens

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: anxiety, novel object, novelty, open field, pre-natal effects., sociality

2015

Evidence for litter differences in play behaviour in pre-weaned pigs

Authors: Sarah Mills Brown, Michael Klaffenböck, Ian Macleod Nevison, Alistair Burnett Lawrence

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: growth development, individual differences, litter differences, pig, post-natal, pre-natal, sex effects, spontaneous play behaviour

2015

Space allowance during gestation and early maternal separation: Effects on the fear response and social motivation of lambs

Authors: Xavier Averós, Joanna Marchewka, Ignacia Beltrán de Heredia, Adroaldo Jose Zanella, Roberto Ruiz, Inma Estevez

Publication/Journal: Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Keywords: fearfulness, maternal separation, pre-natal stress, sheep, social motivation, space allowance, welfare

2015