Behaviour of sheep transferred from pasture to an animal house (1984)

Done-Currie, J. R., Hecker, J. F., Wodzicka-Tomaszewka, M.

Abstract

Sheep kept for long periods in [single] pens had many stereotypic behaviour patters. .. perhaps caution is needed to extrapolate results from nutritional and physiological traits in pens to sheep at pasture.Sheep kept in individual pens develop locomotor stereotypies, including repetitive butting, leaping up and down, weaving and route-tracing.