Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY
Volume 63, Issue 9, Pages 1283-1302Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00484-019-01744-8
Keywords
Heat stress; Dairy cows; Nutritional strategies; Improvement
Funding
- Guangdong Innovation Project of Scientific Research Institutions [2014B070706014]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2018A030313002]
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Heat stress responses negatively impact production performance, milk quality, body temperature, and other parameters in dairy cows. As global warming continues unabated, heat stress in dairy cows is likely to become more widespread in the future. To address this challenge, researchers have evaluated a number of potentially available nutritional strategies, including dietary fat, dietary fiber, dietary microbial additives, minerals, vitamins, metal ion buffer, plant extracts, and other anti-stress additives. In this paper, we discuss the evidence for the efficacy of these nutritional strategies aimed at alleviating the detrimental effects of heat stress in dairy cows. It was comprised of the treatment (dosage and usage), animal information (lactation stage and number of dairy cows), THI value (level of heat stress), duration of exposure, the changes of feed intake and milk yield (production performance), the changes of milk protein and milk fat (milk quality), the changes of rectal temperature and respiration rate (body temperature), other indices, and reference resources. The results of these studies are presented with statistical justification in the tables. In total, the 49 kinds of dietary interventions derived from these eight types of nutritional strategies may provide an appropriate means of mitigating heat stress on a particular dairy farm based on the explanation of the results.
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