Parity and housing effects on the behavioural and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis responses of pregnant ewes
It is common in many countries for sheep to be housed during winter from mid-gestation until lambing to protect ewes and lambs from adverse conditions and improve late gestation nutritional management. Keeping ewes indoors, however, has its own challenges as the animals may be mixed with unfamiliar...
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Elsevier B.V.
2023
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Online Access: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85174846837&doi=10.1016%2fj.animal.2023.101006&partnerID=40&md5=ba684e44a9cc9bc3ea4cc7b4eeb7e9a9 |