Summer and winter stress are two terms that are very difficult to understand.
We are studying in terms of change in nutritional requirements and their supplementation. A feed composition or a product that was giving you excellent results earlier to this stress, suddenly fail to give desired results with the onset of these conditions. You suspect ingredient quality etc.
*** In simple words to understand, a living animal can even give good results with minimum of nutrition at the temperature range of 65-70°F or 18-20°C.
As the temperature starts going above or below this range, their nutritional requirements start increasing. As a result compostions which were giving good results earlier fail to give matching results now. In peak summer when the temperature crosses 38-40°C along with high humidity, the acidosis conditions gets set in as a result the nutritional requirements of a animal changes drastically. Supplementation of Alkaline minerals and proteins give the results. Density of vitamins, minerals, amino acids and the energy levels of the feed need a major correction.
Similar is the conditions in peak winter where temperature goes below 8-10°C.
Thus besides using good products, a farmer need to co-relate their results with the environmental conditions . Temperature above 50 is severely fatal and no nutritional remedy.
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