What the textbooks don’t tell you about… Heat stress

By John Gadd We in the Northern Hemisphere are now in the hot weather season. The textbooks deal with the subject of hot conditions in the piggery comprehensively but tend to overload an intensely practical subject with scientific language. These notes are based on many years of visiting pig units in very hot dry countries such as Australia and Mexico as well as hot wet countries such as Thailand and Vietnam. These producers have a rather easier job in keeping their pigs within their productiv