caa a22 4500 388060158 CHVBK 20180307125118.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1357729800032896 doi S1357729800032896 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1357729800032896 Behavioural and physiological responses of sheep of different breeds to supplementary feeding, social mixing and taming, in the context of transport [Elektronische Daten] Three experiments investigated differences between sheep breeds in response to supplementary feeding and very close confinement with familiar and unfamiliar sheep; and differences between individuals in response to a taming procedure prior to transport in a trailer. The first two experiments were with a mixed flock of Clun Forest lambs and crossbred lambs from Orkney. An initial tendency to feed with others of the same breed diminished over 3 weeks. Responses of heart rate and salivary cortisol concentration when one sheep (the visitor) was penned in an enclosure of 1 m2 with three other sheep of the same or the other breed (the trio group), did not depend on whether the visitor and the trio group were of the same or different breed. Clun Forest sheep showed little response while Orkney sheep showed increased heart rate and some elevation of salivary cortisol concentration. In the third experiment, 34 Beulah Speckled Face ewes were divided into two groups one of which was subjected to a taming procedure over a period of 3 weeks. Response of salivary cortisol concentration to subsequent journeys of 2h in a livestock trailer did not differ between tamed and untamed sheep. There were individual differences in the response to taming and this was correlated with the cortisol response during transport, in that those sheep which responded most to taming showed the least elevation during transport. Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1998 sheep nationallicence stress nationallicence transport nationallicence Hall S. J. G. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES Kirkpatrick S. M. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES Broom D. M. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES Animal Science Cambridge University Press 67/3(1998-12), 475-483 1357-7298 67:3<475 1998 67 ASC https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357729800032896 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1357729800032896 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hall S. J. G. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kirkpatrick S. M. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Broom D. M. Animal Welfare and Human-Animal Interactions Group, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0ES NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Science Cambridge University Press 67/3(1998-12), 475-483 1357-7298 67:3<475 1998 67 ASC CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge