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Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Effects of heat stress on the physiological parameters and productivity of hair sheep in tropical and coastal environments
Autores: | Gesualdi Júnior,Antonio; Sales,Érika Sá Viana; Freitas,Rafael Souza; Henry,Fábio da Costa; Oliveira,Vicente de Paulo Santos de; Gesualdi,Ana Cristina Ladeira de Souza.
Data: | 2014-10-01
Ano: | 2014
Palavras-chave: | Adaptability; Animal production; Bioclimatology.
Resumo: | The experiment was carried out with sheep during the finishing phase in a partial confinement system to evaluate the following physiological parameters: rectal temperature (RT), respiratory rate (RR), heart rate (HR), productive performance and carcass characteristics. Fourteen uncastrated sheep with an average initial age of 90 days belonging to two genetic groups were used. There were seven Santa Inês animals, whose average initial live weight (ILW) was 23.65 kg, and seven F1 Dorper × St. Inês animals, with an ILW of 20.02 kg. The treatments were the two genetic groups and two times for the collection of the physiological parameters, at 09.00 h and 15.00 h. Evaluation took place once a week, in a shared stall, always following a 20-min grazing activity. The animals had daily access to a Megathyrsus maximus(Jacquin) pasture, cultivar Masai, from 08.00 h to 17.00 h and their feed was placed in a trough, at a forage:concentrate ratio of 51:49 in the total dry matter. The concentrate consisted of 900 g/kg of ground corn and 100 g/kg of soybean meal, and the roughage supplied was alfalfa hay. There was no interaction between treatments for the studied variables. The physiological parameters were affected only by the time of day. The variables RR and RT were higher at 15.00 h, while the highest HR values were observed at 09.00 h. Neither of the two genetic groups differed for performance and carcass characteristics. Hair sheep belonging to close genetic groups show no differences in performance, carcass characteristics and physiological responses when subjected to heat stress.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982014001000556
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982014001000008
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.43 n.10 2014
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess