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Balancing Diets for Dairy Cattle During Heat Stress Conditions |
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Author: West |
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State: GA Year: 1997 |
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Excerpt: Once economically realistic attempts have been made to modify the cow's environment, then dietary alterations become necessary.
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Beating the Summer Slump – Keeping Your Cows Cool (part 2 of 2) |
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Author: Porter |
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State: US Year: 2000 |
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Excerpt: As the temperature increases, it is imperative to decrease forage NDF levels as much as possible while still maintaining adequate effective fiber in the diet. Use the highest quality forages available during the summer months. Land O'Lakes, Inc.
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Feeding & Managing Cows in Warm Weather |
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Author: Harris |
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State: FL Year: 1992 |
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Excerpt: It is common knowledge that animals lose body heat by radiation, conduction, convection & evaporation. An understanding of these different principles often help dairymen to develop programs to alleviate heat stress in animals.
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Feeding for High Production During Heat Stress |
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Author: Huber, Wu, Chan, Chen |
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State: AZ Year: 1993 |
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Excerpt: Milk production decreases during heat stress are primarily because of reduced feed intakes & not increased body temperatures, but the two factors are intimately related.
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Heat Stress & Feeding Management |
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Author: Westendorf |
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State: NJ Year: 1997 |
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Excerpt: Increasing the energy density of the diet is one of the most common methods of decreasing an animal’s heatload. Be careful to maintain minimum fiber (ADF & NDF) levels in the diet to prevent any digestive disorders from a diet that is too energy-dense.
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Nutritional Management of Lactating Dairy Cows During Periods of Heat Stress |
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Author: Linn |
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State: MN Year: 1997 |
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Excerpt: Modifying the environment will result in bigger gains, or fewer losses, during heat stress periods than any dietary manipulations. Diet changes will have only a small effect on productivity & should be considered supportive & an enhancement to environ
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Nutritional Strategies for Managing the Heat-Stressed Dairy Cow |
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Author: West |
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State: GA Year: 1999 |
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Excerpt: An excess of degradable dietary protein is undesirable because of energy costs to metabolize & excrete excess N as urea. Optimizing ruminally undegraded protein improves
milk yield in hot climates.
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Responses of Holstein Cows to Heat Stress in Early Lactation |
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Author: de la Cruz, Shah, Murphy, Kadzere |
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State: IL Year: 1999 |
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Excerpt: Heat stress caused a sudden & dramatic drop in the feed consumption of cows whose intakes would otherwise have been steadily increasing. After three days of heat stress dry matter intake began to recover, which suggested cows were adjusting to environ
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The Heat's On: Strategies & Choices |
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Author: Hutjens |
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State: IL Year: 1998 |
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Excerpt: Perhaps August will be a cooler month, but the following points may be useful.
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Understanding Heat Stress in Dairy Cattle |
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Author: Shirk |
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State: PA Year: 2002 |
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Excerpt: Think of cows as furnaces. The more you stoke them (feed them) the more heat they produce, & as we strive to maximize DMI & milk output, we sure do stoke our high producing cows!
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