Feed barrier design affects behaviour and physiology in goats

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 133, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 40-53

  Nordmann, Eva ^a   Keil, Nina Maria ^b   Schmied Wagner, Claudia ^a   Graml, Christine ^a   Langbein, Jan ^c   Aschwanden, Janine ^b   von Hof, Jessica ^a   Maschat, Kristina ^a   Palme, Rupert ^a   Waiblinger, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR FARM ANIMAL BIOLOGY FBN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Faecal cortisol metabolites; Feed barrier; Goats; Heart rate variability; Social behaviour; Stress

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BARRIER (EQUIPMENT); CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FECES; FEEDING GROUND; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GOAT; HORMONE; HORN; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; METABOLITE; PHYSIOLOGY; STEROID;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS;

EID: 79959492036     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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