Heart rate and stress hormone responses of sheep to road transport following two different loading procedures

Animal Welfare

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 257-267

  Parrott, R F ^a   Hall, S J G ^b,c   Lloyd, D M ^a  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Handling; Heart rate; Road transport; Sheep; Stress hormones

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000150857     PISSN: 09627286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (9)

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