Farmfacts: Farmfact Managing heat
stress in dairy cows (3-15)

Last updated: August 2006

Summary: Heat stress occurs when a dairy cow's heat load is greater than her capacity to lose heat, and is sometimes referred to as hyperthermia.

Although effects of heat stress are more severe in hot climates such as in parts of America and Australia, dairy cows in areas of New Zealand are affected by heat stress during summer (Bluett et al. 2000).

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