Articles | Volume 62, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-62-199-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/aab-62-199-2019
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16 Apr 2019
Short communication |  | 16 Apr 2019

Testing eye temperature assessed with infrared thermography to evaluate stress in meat goats raised in a semi-intensive farming system: a pilot study

Ester Bartolomé, Florencia Azcona, María Cañete-Aranda, Davinia I. Perdomo-González, Joana Ribes-Pons, and Ester M. Terán

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The main aim of this pilot study was to test eye temperature (ET) as a noninvasive tool to explore stress levels associated with a semi-intensive farming system in Blanca Serrana meat goats, developing a stress test simulating routine practices. They showed a statistically significant increase in the ET and respiratory rate stress parameters after the stressful stimulus was introduced, but not of the heart rate. ET appears as an appropriate and noninvasive tool to explore stress levels in goats.