Assessment bioclimatology in sheep

Authors

  • Gilberto de Lima Macedo Junior

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22256/pubvet.v6n20.1382

Keywords:

adaptation, performance, thermal stress, tolerance

Abstract

The sheep production is widely distributed throughout the regions of the country, where climatic factors affect the animal thereby reducing productivity as a consequence of the animals is outside the zone of thermal comfort. The organism spends energy in animal physiological mechanisms to cool or warm the body, the nutrients ingested by the animal turned into energy, and part of this energy form is translocated to the physiological mechanisms, to the detriment of energy needed for growth and development. The heat stress influenced on the voluntary intake of food by animals.

Published

2016-09-22

Issue

Section

Outros

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