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2006; Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 07-118-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 965; Dairy; Body temperature; Cooling; Heat stress
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Evaluate The Efficacy Of "Heat Stress Audits" Of Your Cooling System Through Core Body Temperature (2006), John F. Smith, M. Vanbaale, C. Jamison, R. Rodriguez
Evaluate The Efficacy Of "Heat Stress Audits" Of Your Cooling System Through Core Body Temperature (2006), John F. Smith, M. Vanbaale, C. Jamison, R. Rodriguez
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A project to evaluate the degree of heat stress in individual dairies was carried out in the summer of 2005. The object of this project was to develop a method to evaluate or audit how effective an individual dairy is in manag-ing heat stress. Approximately 45 herds in 20 different states were audited for the degree of heat stress cows experienced during a 72-hr period. Dairies were selected based on geog-raphy, climate, and facility design. Lactating cows 40 to 100 days in milk (DIM) and dry cows within 30 days of calving were evalu-ated. Vaginal temperatures of 8 cows located …