Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
In Utero Heat Stress Programs Reduced Performance and Health in Calves.
- Journal:
- The Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Dahl, Geoffrey E et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Animal Sciences · United States
Abstract
Heat stress during late gestation adversely impacts the developing calf. Calves that experience heat stress are born at a lower bodyweight and those deficits persist at least until puberty. In utero heat stress reduces passive transfer and calf survival. Late gestation heat stress programs a phenotype with lower milk yield, relative to herd mates born to cooled dams, in the first lactation and subsequent lactations.
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