many factors can reduce heat stress in poultry addition of antioxidant to food or water cooling the plase reduce protein ratio in food
Heat stress has bad economic effects on poultry production, it is important to avoid heat stress in poultry through changing management and feeding to keep the birds in cool conditions. For more information please read in the link:
http://www.nutrecocanada.com/docs/shur-gain---poultry/managing-heat-stress-in-poultry.pdf
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the following tips for reducing heat stress on poultry flocks:
Make sure birds have cool, clean water.
Add electrolytes to water. Electrolytes will help to balance the electrolytes in birds, plus birds will drink more water. Grit has directions for making a homemade electrolyte solution for chickens. You can also add vitamins A, B complex, D and E to supplement water for broilers and vitamin C for breeding poultry.
Feed birds during cooler parts of the day, since birds produce heat while they digest. For broilers and turkeys, remove feed 6 hours before the afternoon peak temperature. Once the peak temperature has passed, feed can be reintroduced.
Leave birds alone during the hottest parts of the day.
Make sure birds have plenty of space. Reduce body heat by putting fewer birds in each house.
Make sure birds’ environments are well-ventilated and comfortable. A misting/fogging system may be used to help birds cool down.
Hot weather can severely impact poultry performance.When a bird begins to pant, physiological changes have already taken place within its body to help eliminate excess heat. Practicing proper heat management (Management of lighting, breed effect,Litter materials and management, nutrition ,good hygiene andVentilation management )to help keep birds comfortable will helpmaintain optimum growth, hatchability, egg size, egg shell quality, and egg production.
Dear Zahira,
You can reduce HS by reduce heat increment providing by food digestion and metabolism.
Follow this link, please..
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/12/heat-stress-in-poultry-solving-the-problem/
Saeed Al Rashid described it well. Additionally you could add some betaine into the water (osmoregulator) and higher vitamin C. Energy increase in oil form. Microclimate,proper wentilation and cold water is the base.
firstly reducing water temperature,
sencond using some antistress feed addicitives like VC and plant extraction, sodium bicarbonate may have an excellence effect in condition that electrolyte balance,
third night-feed may may have some help
and so on
In addition to what has been described by colleagues, there is an interesting tip. When placing young chicks for a day, it is necessary to ensure a maximum ambient temperature, it would appear that the high heat in the first days of life allows the chicks to acquire a good tolerance to thermal stress. Also, make sure your chicks are free from mycoplasma! At day 1 and at 20 days!
Make sure birds have cool, clean water.
Add electrolytes to water. ...
Feed birds during cooler parts of the day, since birds produce heat while they digest.
1. Focus to decrease house temperature
2. increase floor space
3. increase 20-25% drinkers in shed
4. Offer feed to bird during cooling hours
5. Supplement electrolytes
6. Supplement Betaine, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Se
7. Reduce litter depth
1. Cool and clean water
2. Vitamin and electrolytes in drinking water
3. Increase natural or artificial ventilation
4 .Increase feeding frequency
1. Give cold water below the body temperature of the bird and addition of Vit C in drinking water
2. Proper feeding time particularly early in the morning or late in afternoon in the tropics and during hot weather
3. Reducing the energy density of the feed
4. Ensuring good ventilation and air quality within the pen
5. Proper litter management in the deep litter system
Dear Zahira,
There are many ways by which we can alleviate the negative effects of heat stress on poultry performance. The research efforts are focusing on genetic, nutrition, physiology and molecular technology nowadays. I had opportunity to be supervise on more than 20 msc. and Ph.D works being interested, with reducing deleterious effects of heat stress on poultry under harsh and very high temperature of Iraqi conditions. It is my pleasure to assist you and do not hesitate contacting me.
the following tips for reducing heat stress on poultry flocks:
Make sure birds have cool, clean water.
Add electrolytes to water. Electrolytes will help to balance the electrolytes in birds, plus birds will drink more water. Grit has directions for making a homemade electrolyte solution for chickens. You can also add vitamins A, B complex, D and E to supplement water for broilers and vitamin C for breeding poultry.
Feed birds during cooler parts of the day, since birds produce heat while they digest. For broilers and turkeys, remove feed 6 hours before the afternoon peak temperature. Once the peak temperature has passed, feed can be reintroduced.
Leave birds alone during the hottest parts of the day.
Make sure birds have plenty of space. Reduce body heat by putting fewer birds in each house.
Make sure birds’ environments are well-ventilated and comfortable. A misting/fogging system may be used to help birds cool down.
Make sure birds have cool, clean water.
Add electrolytes to water. ...
Feed birds during cooler parts of the day, since birds produce heat while they digest.
Dear Dr. Zahira
Make sure birds have cool, clean water.
Add electrolytes to water. Electrolytes will help to balance the electrolytes in birds, plus birds will drink more water. Grit has directions for making a homemade electrolyte solution for chickens. You can also add vitamins A, B complex, D and E to supplement water for broilers and vitamin C for breeding poultry.
Feed birds during cooler parts of the day, since birds produce heat while they digest. For broilers and turkeys, remove feed 6 hours before the afternoon peak temperature. Once the peak temperature has passed, feed can be reintroduced.
Leave birds alone during the hottest parts of the day.
Make sure birds have plenty of space. Reduce body heat by putting fewer birds in each house.
Make sure birds’ environments are well-ventilated and comfortable. A misting/fogging system may be used to help birds cool down.
Hi
I think that there many factors can reduce heat stress in poultry like adding of antioxidant to food or water and some vitamins like Vit.C and Levamisole. you can see my searches in RG about this subject.
regards
Hi
You must
- reduce house temperature
- reducing temperature of water
- Anti-stress supplementation for birds like Vitamin C, Vitamin E and Se.
- night-feed.
- increase drinkers in shed
- Offer feed to bird during cooling hours
- Increase feeding frequency
- Decrease litter depth
- Increase ventilation
Regards.......
we use these ways:
medicinal herbs ; antioxidants and flavenoids
inclusion of betain in ration
decrease of ration cp
inclusion of more fat
There are many methods , but vitamin C is very active for this problem.
Ways to prevent heat stress in poultry
Genetic methods
Use of major genes
Genes with bare neck
The dwarf gene
Feeding method
many ways...section on nutrition,physiology,genetic,poultry housing and correct management.
i give the birds cocktails of partially boil botanicals extract like aloe vera, neem, lemon grass, moringa and tobacco leaves also inclusive is yeast and baking powder. aside this cocktails extracts i add vitamin C to their drinking water. at the hot weather i stop the use of antibiotics as therapeutic or prophylactic usage. just trying to 500mg of paracetamol per 85 birds now as the daily atmospheric temperature now in my area is around 40oc.
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