Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxiv
Acute stressors experienced by layer breeders do not affect measures of stress and fear in their offspring
M. Roedel Lopez Vieira Peixoto, N. A. Karrow, A. Newman…·T. M. Widowski
This study tests if maternal stress affects offspring stress and fear responses in layer breeders, finding no effect of acute stressors or corticosterone on offspring measures, but significant strain differences.
DOI 10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113185