Feeling the heat

What is your first response when you are feeling too warm? Do you reach for a cold drink, seek out shade or put the fan on its highest setting? We humans may groan when temperatures rise, but our bodies have a way of dealing with this. But what about livestock? How do they deal with heat stress and more importantly what can be done to mitigate it? Heat stress occurs when an animal’s heat load is greater than its capacity to lose heat. In livestock this can have a detrimental impact on fertilit