Diagnostic significance of behaviour changes of sheep: A selected review

摘要: Abstract Sheep welfare is the combination of subjective and objective (qualitative quantitative) aspects conditions life animals, including health disease, behaviour, husbandry management; thus, it a complex abstract construct. The scientific approach to problems assessing suffering in sheep has be evidence-based. Different approaches contribute an assessment animal suffering, such as measurements physical damage animal, measurement animals’ preferences considerations which adapted its normal social structure. Selected literature on behavioural alterations sheep, indicate internal or external distressing procedures, reviewed this paper. There need for further research identify indicators distress but meantime would reasonable make judgement that, some circumstances, observed vocalising, panting, showing markedly increased locomotory activity and/or changes feeding patterns could experiencing distress.