Heat stress effects on milk yield traits and metabolites and mitigation strategies for dairy cattle breeds reared in tropical and sub-tropical countries

V Habimana, AS Nguluma, ZC Nziku… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heat stress is an important problem for dairy industry in many parts of the world owing to its
adverse effects on productivity and profitability. Heat stress in dairy cattle is caused by an …

Review of the Heat Stress-Induced Responses in Dairy Cattle

C Giannone, M Bovo, M Ceccarelli, D Torreggiani… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Next-generation numerical approaches, such as machine learning
techniques and big data analytics, are also increasingly applied in the animal production …

Artificial intelligence applied to a robotic dairy farm to model milk productivity and quality based on cow data and daily environmental parameters

S Fuentes, C Gonzalez Viejo, B Cullen, E Tongson… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Increased global temperatures and climatic anomalies, such as heatwaves, as a product of
climate change, are impacting the heat stress levels of farm animals. These impacts could …

Enhancing individual animal resilience to environmental disturbances to address low productivity in dairy cattle performing in sub-Saharan Africa

RD Oloo, JMK Ojango, CC Ekine-Dzivenu… - Frontiers in Animal …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The current review examines potential solutions to enhance the sustainability and
productivity of the dairy sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with an emphasis on breeding …

Relationship among production traits, somatic cell score and temperature–humidity index in the Italian Mediterranean Buffalo

R Matera, A Cotticelli, M Gómez Carpio… - Italian Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The temperature–humidity index (THI) has been commonly used to analyse heat stress in
dairy cattle, but little is known about its effects on buffaloes. In this study, daily milk yield …

Modelling methane emissions from pig manure using statistical and machine learning methods

JK Basak, E Arulmozhi, BE Moon, A Bhujel… - Air Quality, Atmosphere & …, 2022 - Springer
Manure production and its management in the livestock sector have been increasingly
receiving global attention due to its contribution to generating greenhouse gases, especially …

Recent advances on early detection of heat strain in dairy cows using animal-based indicators: A review

H Shu, W Wang, L Guo, J Bindelle - Animals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the dairy industry, heat stress and its induced heat strain result in huge
economic loss every year. To better manage heat strain in dairy cows, it is more sensible to …

Non-invasive sheep biometrics obtained by computer vision algorithms and machine learning modeling using integrated visible/infrared thermal cameras

S Fuentes, C Gonzalez Viejo, SS Chauhan, A Joy… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Live sheep export has become a public concern. This study aimed to test a non-contact
biometric system based on artificial intelligence to assess heat stress of sheep to be …

Relationship between reticulorumen parameters measured in real time and methane emission and heat stress risk in dairy cows

R Antanaitis, L Anskienė, E Rapaliutė, R Bilskis… - Animals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary We have found only a few publications in the literature on the link between
rumen pH and CH4. Based on this, we hypothesized that reticulorumen pH and temperature …

Reference patterns for thermoregulation in Italian Massese ewes

J Ferreira, CM McManus, RMF Silveira… - Journal of Thermal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Massese is an autochthonous Italian sheep breed, used for meat and mainly milk
production and thermoregulatory variations can directly affect the performance of these …