EA Pajor,J Rushen,de Passillé AM
EA Pajor
Fear of humans is a source of stress for Holstein dairy cattle and can result when animals are handled aversively. We used aversion learning techniques to determine which handling practices cattle find most aversive. In an aversion race, th...
The effect of increasing visual horizons on stereotypic weaving: implications for the social housing of stabled horses [0.03%]
JJ Cooper,L McDonald,DS Mills
JJ Cooper
Stabled horses commonly perform stereotypic patterns of weaving, where the horse shifts its weight from side to side often swinging its head. Ten warm-blood types, of which five were known to reliably weave, were housed in similar 12x12 ft ...
Prevalence of behaviour problems reported by owners of dogs purchased from an animal rescue shelter [0.03%]
DL Wells,PG Hepper
DL Wells
This study examined the prevalence of behaviour problems exhibited by dogs within 4 weeks of acquisition from a rescue shelter in Northern Ireland. One thousand five hundred and forty-seven people who had purchased a dog from a rescue shelt...
FG Barroso,CL Alados,J Boza
FG Barroso
Outside the scientific world, the effect of social behaviour on production is little taken into account, but the importance of this relationship has been sufficiently proven in some animal species. Nevertheless, there are scarce works that ...
J Cooper,IJ Gordon,AW Pike
J Cooper
Experiments were conducted to investigate which environmental cues were used by sheep when discriminating against patches of pasture contaminated with faeces. The influence of the spatial distribution of contaminated patches and the parasit...
CC Croney,LL Wilson,SE Curtis et al.
CC Croney et al.
Effects of three different handling aids on calf behavior were determined. Group 1 calves were intensively-reared intact Holstein males (mean 180 days old); Group 2, extensively-reared beef-breed females (mean 230 days); Group 3, extensivel...
Development of stereotypies and polydipsia in wild caught bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) and their laboratory-bred offspring. Is polydipsia a symptom of diabetes mellitus? [0.03%]
B Schoenecker,KE Heller,T Freimanis
B Schoenecker
The development of stereotypies and polydipsia was studied in wild caught bank voles (P: n=92) and their laboratory-bred offspring (F1: n=248). All animals were kept isolated in barren cages in the laboratory. In the P generation, no indivi...
Indication of a genetic basis of stereotypies in laboratory-bred bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) [0.03%]
B Schoenecker,KE Heller
B Schoenecker
The development of stereotypies was studied in two successive laboratory-bred generations of bank voles representing F1 (n=248) and F2 (n=270) of an originally wild caught stock. It was shown that the propensity to develop stereotypies unde...
JW Weeks,SL Crowell-Davis,AB Caudle et al.
JW Weeks et al.
Aggression and social spacing were studied in 14 light horse mares and their foals living at pasture. Focal samples were collected on each mare-foal dyad for 6 to 10.5 h from 2 months of foal age until weaning at approximately 4 months of a...
HH Kristensen,LR Burgess,TG Demmers et al.
HH Kristensen et al.
Ammonia gas is one of the most abundant aerial pollutants of modern poultry buildings. The current chronic exposure limit for ammonia of 25 ppm is set for human safety rather than animal welfare. This study assessed the behavioural preferen...