Qualitative behavioral assessment of transport-naïve and transport-habituated sheep
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Qualitative behavioral assessment of transport-naive and transport-habituated sheep.
Objective and issue-neutral qualitative assessments of livestock behavior could provide a powerful assessment of welfare, augmenting quantitative measures such as autonomic and endocrine changes, which are often difficult to assess under many commercial livestock conditions. We set out to validate the use of qualitative behavioral assessment (QBA) in sheep using controlled experimental conditio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Animal Science
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0021-8812,1525-3163
DOI: 10.2527/jas.2010-3451