Cooling dairy cattle in a hot climate

Authors

  • Dennis V. Armstrong Extension Dairy Specialist and Research Scientist, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
  • Frank Wiersma Professor of Agricultural Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no24p87-88

Keywords:

Cooling, Cows, dairy cattle, Heat exhaustion, heat stress, milk yield, shading, spraying, Thermoregulation

Abstract

Methods for cooling lactating cows (and thus maintaining or increasing milk yield) are reviewed, including water cooling and shading systems.

Cover image of the 24th Volume of the Bovine Practitioner: a photo of the Kansas city skyline from the perspective of the Scout--a statue of a Sioux Indian on horseback surveying the landscape

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Published

1989-11-01

Issue

No. 24 (1989 November)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Cooling dairy cattle in a hot climate. (1989). The Bovine Practitioner, 24, 87-88. https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol0no24p87-88

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