THOUGHTS ▶▶▶ A nice cool pint of beer
or cooling pads? And would there be certain breeds that perform better under tropical conditions? In addi- tion, various nutritional aspects were touched on in relation to heat stress – which components help animals
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recover quickly and which give the animals more heat? Heat stress is also one of those areas that swine and humans have in common. Imagine you’ve been playing a game of tennis at 35ºC, doing intensive sightseeing in summery Spain or you’ve spent the whole day working hard amongst the sows in the sweltering heat of tropical Brazil. Then what do you do?
Don’t know about you, but in those cases I opt for a nice cool pint of beer – or any other drink – preferably with plenty of ice cubes. Now exactly that thought occurred to researchers at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil as well: why don’t we provide cold water to sows? Prof Bruno Silva, an expert on heat stress, explains what his team found as
from page 10. Vincent ter Beek, editor Pig Progress
ften, problems in the global swine business are being tackled from many different angles. ‘Heat stress’ has made headlines recently in more than one respect – the swine business in the tropics is growing and climate change puts the theme in the spotlights too. Not so long ago, Pig Progress had an entire series about solutions to heat stress. How could it be solved using fans
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