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Behavioural Responses of Beef Cattle to Hot Conditions.
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- The Impact of Heat Load on Behaviour and Physiology of Beef Cattle: Preliminary Validation of Non-Invasive Diagnostic Indicators.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- The Welfare Impact of Heat Stress in South American Beef Cattle and the Cost-Effectiveness of Shade Provision.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- The supplementation of lubabegron or ractopamine hydrochloride in the summer improved growth performance but did not impact rumination, mobility scores, and behaviors in feedlot cattle in the United States†.Journal of animal science · 2026Article
- Effects of natural and artificial shade on behavior, physiology, and productivity in water buffalo: a narrative review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Review
- Evaluating Reticulorumen Temperature, Rumination, Activity and pH Measured by Rumen Sensors as Indicators of Heat Load in Fattening Bulls.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Welfare of beef cattle.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025Article
- Strategies for mitigating heat stress and their effects on behavior, physiological indicators, and growth performance in communally managed feedlot cattle.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- Welfare indicators in cattle farming in the face of heat stress: a review in climate change scenarios.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Article
- The Relationship between the Infrared Eye Temperature of Beef Cattle and Associated Biological Responses at High Environmental Temperatures.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
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Abstract
Cattle are increasingly exposed to hot temperatures as a result of climate change, and a better understanding of behavioural responses could be beneficial for the diagnosis of heat loads. The changes in the positioning of key body parts, feeding behaviour, body maintenance, and respiratory dynamics were assessed in 24 Black Angus steers individually exposed to hot conditions and fed a finisher diet based on cereal grain or a substituted diet (8% of the grain replaced by an isoenergetic amount of lucerne hay). Increased respiration rate during the heat load period, compared to the recovery period, was associated with increased stepping, especially by left limbs. Cattle also reduced eating, grooming, and scratching during the heat load period. The lowered head, backward ear, vertical or raised tail, and increased respiration rate and panting persisted in cattle during the heat load period. Cattle on the cereal grain diet stood for longer and were more likely to hold their ears backward and tail vertical than those on the substituted diet. We conclude that these behaviours could be used to detect animals that are most affected and that changing from a cereal-based diet to a substituted diet containing a higher amount of fibre, such as lucerne hay, can reduce hyperthermic behavioural responses to a heat load.
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