The effects of dietary cation-anion difference and dietary buffer for lactating dairy cattle under mild heat stress with night cooling
C A Bertens, C.M. Stoffel, M. Crombie, Payam Vahmani, G.B. Penner
Abstract
improved postruminal GIT barrier function despite a lack of low ruminal pH. Because there appeared to be a limited interactive effect between DCAD and buffer, increased DCAD and the provision of buffer seem to independently influence physiological and performance responses in lactating dairy cows exposed to mild heat stress with night cooling.
Topics & Concepts
Heat stressDairy cattleChemistryAnimal scienceFood scienceBuffer (optical fiber)BiologyComputer scienceTelecommunicationsEffects of Environmental Stressors on LivestockReproductive Physiology in LivestockThermoregulation and physiological responses