Improving heat stress management in beef cattle
Dec 07, 2020
3 minutes
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Anette Theunissen, an animal scientist based at the Vaalharts Research Station, explains the results of a study conducted by researchers at the Agricultural Research Council’s Animal Production Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, to evaluate the use of a temperature humidity index as a measuring tool for heat stress in beef cattle.
Long- and short-term climatic patterns influence all livestock types: poultry, pigs, sheep, goats, dairy and beef cattle and others. Extreme environmental conditions, such as cold and hot conditions due to air
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