Physiological responses of Bos taurus and Bos indicus cattle to prolonged, continuous heat and humidity
Beatty, D.T., Barnes, A.ORCID: 0000-0002-7227-230X, Taylor, E., Pethick, D.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3255-7677, McCarthy, M. and Maloney, S.K.
(2006)
Physiological responses of Bos taurus and Bos indicus cattle to prolonged, continuous heat and humidity.
Journal of Animal Science, 84
(4).
pp. 972-985.
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Abstract
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the physiological responses of Bos taurus (Angus cross, n = 6) and Bos indicus (Brahman, n = 6) cattle to prolonged heat and humidity, as can occur during live export by sea. Each experiment was carried out in climate-controlled rooms, where heifers were exposed to 15 d of sustained heat and humidity. The treatment was designed to be representative of a long-haul, live-export voyage leaving a southern Australian winter and traveling to a Middle Eastern summer. Wet bulb temperature (WBT) was used to give a combined measure of dry bulb temperature and relative humidity and was increased over several days, culminating in 5 d at 32
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Murdoch Affiliation(s): | School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences |
Publisher: | American Society of Animal Science |
Copyright: | 2006 American Society of Animal Science |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/12642 |
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