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Refining a novel on-farm attention bias test to measure anxious states in sheep (AEC14/28)

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Monk, Jessica ; Doyle, Rebecca ; Colditz, Ian ; Belson, Sue ; Cronin, Greg ; Lee, Caroline
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Animal welfare is an increasingly important aspect of livestock production systems and there is a need to develop tests that can identify sheep that are more resilient and cope better with our production systems. This study further validated and refined a novel behavioural test for sheep as a measure of anxious states. The original test method took 3 minutes per animal and required some prior training. One objective of this project was to refine the test, to take less than 3 minutes per animal and to remove the need for prior training, so that it could be applied on-farm to larger numbers of animals. Another objective of the study was to pharmacologically validate the test as a measure of anxious states, using the drugs diazepam and m-Chlorophenylpiperazine to reduce and induce anxious states respectively prior to testing.
Lineage: Details of the methods used to produce this data have been published and can be found at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190404 (see methods for Experiment 1)

Available: 2021-08-04

Data time period: 2015-01-01 to 2015-04-01

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Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences | Animal Production | Animal Welfare | Other Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences | Other Agricultural, Veterinary and Food Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Veterinary Pharmacology | Veterinary Sciences | affective state | animal behaviour | animal physiology | animal welfare | anxiety | attention bias | behavioural neuroscience | cognitive bias | emotion | pharmacological validation | pharmacology | sheep |

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