Short term thermal relief for improved fertility in dairy cattle during hot weather |
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| Authors: | G H Stott F Wiersma |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Animal Sciences, University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, Arizona, USA;(2) Department of Soils, Water and Engineering, University of Arizona, 85721 Tucson, Arizona, USA |
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| Abstract: | Cooling dairy cows to basal body temperatures in a climatic-control barn before inseminating and for 1 to 6.5 days after, improved fertility during early summer in the hot desert climate of Arizona. The treatment was not as effective during later summer months when the animals had been exposed to high climatic temperature for a longer period. Physiological adaptation to heat stress, inimical to normal reproduction, is apparently irreversible over the short cooling period.Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station Technical Paper No 2622. |
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