In this heat wave, we know you’re worried about your livestock – and luckily there are resources for you to go to to help keep your animals safe and productive. Extension specialist and UW professor Dr. Jennifer Van Os says if you think it’s hot outside, it’s definitely too warm for your dairy cattle. She says a 68 on the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) is too much heat for cattle -- this equates to a 70-degree day at 65% humidity. See here: https://dairy.extension.wisc.edu/articles/animal-handling-during-heat-stress/.

She notes heat stress can lead to short-term implications, such as lower feed intake, or long-term complications, such as poor reproductive health. She says water, ventilation and shade are essential to keeping cattle cool. Learn more about farm infrastructure for cattle health: https://thedairylandinitiative.vetmed.wisc.edu/

In this heat wave, we know you’re worried about your livestock – and luckily there are resources for you to go to to help keep your animals safe and productive. Extension specialist and UW professor Dr. Jennifer Van Os says if you think it’s hot outside, it’s definitely too warm for your dairy cattle. She says a 68 on the Temperature Humidity Index (THI) is too much heat for cattle -- this equates to a 70-degree day at 65% humidity. See here: <a href="https://dairy.extension.wisc.edu/articles/animal-handling-during-heat-stress/">https://dairy.extension.wisc.edu/articles/animal-handling-during-heat-stress/</a>.
She notes heat stress can lead to short-term implications, such as lower feed intake, or long-term complications, such as poor reproductive health. She says water, ventilation and shade are essential to keeping cattle cool. Learn more about farm infrastructure for cattle health: <a href="https://thedairylandinitiative.vetmed.wisc.edu/">https://thedairylandinitiative.vetmed.wisc.edu/</a>

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