The effect of a feeding stress-test on the behaviour and heart rate variability of control and crib-biting horses (with or without inhibition)

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 140-147

  Nagy, Krisztina ^a   Bodó, Gábor ^a   Bárdos, György ^b   Harnos, Andrea ^a   Kabai, Péter ^a  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Crib biting; Cribbing collar; Equine welfare; Modified Forssell's operation; Stereotypic behaviour; Stress coping

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SURVEY; DISEASE TREATMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HORSE; INJURY; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 72149118198     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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