Tag: heat stress management
Leveraging nutritional expertise for small ruminants
Small ruminant farming (sheep and goats) is an important and developing market and has the potential for further optimalisation and efficiency gains. This requires...
Revising electrolyte balance in broiler in a sustainable feed manufacturing strategy
Among chloride-free sodium sources available to supplement in feed, AdiSodium is a cost-effective source, ensuring animal performance in standard and hot climate conditions. Exhibiting...
Optimizing performance under heat: Crystallized betaine or more methionine?
When applying precision nutrition to broiler diets it is crucial to consider how nutrients affect bird health and performance along with production budgets. Betaine...
Managing high heat conditions through nutrition
Mitigating heat stress is crucial to achieving efficient, profitable and sustainable animal agriculture operations. Effective farm management can support animal production during extreme heat...
Beat the Heat – What layers, broilers and other birds need to conquer heat...
In addition to adjustments in management and housing conditions, additives are invaluable in improving the comfort, health and welfare of animals in high temperatures...
Thermo solutions support animals during the summer
CCPA Group recommends Thermo® solutions to breeders and production organizations in dealing with summers that are unpredictable and polymorphic, growing expectations for animal welfare,...
Heat stress: Measures to cope with rising temperatures and humidity
Heat stress has been a major herd management challenge for dairy farmers over many years, presenting severe production and welfare demands in the face...
Heat stress in dairy cows can be mitigated
Modern breeds of farm animals are highly productive, but they have a high basic metabolic rate making them more sensitive to the extreme heat....
Stop heat stress from milking your profits dry
Rumen fermentation and lactation require high metabolic heat production, making dairy cows particularly sensitive to heat stress whenever the temperature humidity index (THI) exceeds...
Nutritional adjustments under heat stress in poultry production
High ambient temperature is one of the most common stressors in commercial poultry production, resulting in reduced feed intake and body weight gain, and...