Animal factors associated with core body temperature of nonlactating dairy cows during summer

Journal of Animal Science
A L A ScanavezL G D Mendonça

Abstract

The primary objectives of the current study were to investigate animal factors associated with core body temperature (CBT) and to determine the time of the day in which CBT assessment best describes the magnitude of hyperthermia throughout the day of heat-stressed dry cows. The secondary objective was to develop a predictive model for CBT of dry cows. Nonlactating Holstein cows (n = 105) with 250 to 260 d of gestation from 2 commercial dairies were enrolled in the study during summer. During 4 consecutive days, CBT from all cows was recorded in 5-min intervals and average CBT was calculated for each cow. In addition, mean, maximum, minimum, and standard deviation of daily CBT were calculated and using these measures cows were categorized as having high temperature (HT) or low temperature (LT) based on the median values. Cows carrying twins had greater (P < 0.01) CBT than cows bearing singletons (39.07 ± 0.07 vs. 38.84 ± 0.03 °C). Average CBT decreased (P < 0.01) 0.015 ± 0.004 °C for each 1-d increase in gestation length. Cows in Dairy A tended (P = 0.09) to have lower CBT than cows in Dairy B (38.91 ± 0.04 vs. 39.00 ± 0.06 °C). Season of birth, lactation number, body condition score category, previous projected 305-d mature equ...Continue Reading

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