Prevention better than cure to cope with heat stress

Heat stress (HS) is one of the major stressors encountered by farm animals. When livestock are subjected to this environmental stress, it can be detrimental to health, well-being and performance, and if severe enough even death. Setting up multiple strategies before HS strikes is the key. Many of the consequences of HS are readily apparent on-farm, especially in swine, cattle and poultry. Several aspects are affected such as feed intake and feeding pattern in all these species; in fact, heat-st