150112 20251017144600.0 doi 10.1016/j.meatsci.2015.02.008 sideral 89507 ART-2015-89507 eng Aguayo-Ulloa,L. (orcid)0000-0002-3825-9515 Effect of a screen with flaps and straw on behaviour, stress response, productive performance and meat quality in indoor feedlot lambs 2015 We analysed the effect of a modified pen using a wooden screen with flaps and cereal straw as forage and bedding, on behaviour, stress response, performance and meat quality variables of lambs housed in feedlots. Sixty male lambs were placed in enriched (ESF) or conventional (CO) pens (3 pens/treatment, 10 lambs/pen). The CO environment was barren. The ESF lambs showed a great preference for the provided items, which encouraged more natural and richer behaviour, reducing stereotypies and lamb aggressions, and increasing affiliations (P ≤ 0.05), which improves group cohesion. However, ESF lambs also developed a more natural coping style to the handling, evidenced by the higher cortisol levels (65.4 vs. 43.8 nmol/L) and a higher eye temperature as response to the reactivity test (38.1 vs. 37.8 °C). The ESF lambs had a higher (P ≤ 0.05) slaughter weight (27.2 vs. 26.3 kg), conformation score (7.38 vs. 6.07) and pH 24 (5.63 vs. 5.56) but lower cooking losses (12.9 vs. 14.9%) than CO lambs. info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess All rights reserved http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ 2.801 2015 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 20 / 125 = 0.16 2015 Q1 T1 1.917 2015 Food Science 2015 Q1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Pascual-Alonso,M. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7012-2095 Olleta,J. L. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6955-355X Sañudo,C. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6166-7499 Miranda-de,la Lama María,G. A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6106-2577 2008 700 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Produc.Animal Cienc.Ali. Área Producción Animal 105 (2015), 16-24 Meat sci. Meat Science 0309-1740 958747 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150112/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 3082072 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150112/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:150112 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:14:06 ARTICLE