The effect of positive or negative handling on the behavioural and physiological responses of nonlactating heifers

By K. Breuer, P. Hemsworth, G. Coleman. 2003

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Sources of stress in captivity (2007, background): “Dairy heifers that have unpleasant experiences with humans show a greater latency to approach humans and higher plasma corticosterone than do heifers that have pleasant interactions with humans (Breuer et al., 2003).”
Assessing the human-animal relationship in farmed species: a critical review (2006, background): “…have compared the effects of positive and negative handling treatments on avoidance or withdrawal distance (see Hemsworth and Barnett, 1991; Breuer et al., 2003), but if no control treatment (neutral contact) is included, such experiments cannot by themselves show whether the measures have…”
Can ear postures reliably measure the positive emotional state of cows (2014, methodology): “, 2004), and that the experience of eing stroked is inherently positive for the cows, as sugested by previous studies (Bertenshaw and Rowlinson, 008; Breuer et al., 2003; Westerath et al., 2014).”
Farmer attitude toward improvement of animal welfare is correlated with piglet production parameters (2012, background): “reproduction, in animals (Breuer et al., 2003; Dobson et al., 2001; Hemsworth and Coleman, 1998), whereas negative handling reduces productivity through alterations in metabolism caused by stress response (Hemsworth et al.”