Types of stress and methods of stress reduction in cattle

Author:

Silin D. A.1,Platonov S. A.1

Affiliation:

1. Federal Research Centre of Biological Systems and Agrotechnologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract

Recently, stress has become the most urgent problem of modern animal husbandry. With the industrialization of agriculture, this problem is becoming more and more acute, as a result, livestock enterprises and farms suffer significant economic losses. Throughout its life, the animal is exposed to numerous stressors that have a completely different nature of occurrence, but invariably lead to the same changes in the body. The animal noticeably loses weight, weakens, its resistance to diseases decreases. A review of scientific sources on some types of stress loading on cattle: heat stress, transportation stress, pre-slaughter stress is given. According to many studies, the stress state of an animal depends on feeding and maintenance by 70-80% and only 20-30% on genetics. The body of farm animals is constantly affected by various environmental factors. These include production technology, method of maintenance, density of accommodation, size of groups, microclimate of premises, type and level of feeding, biological full-value of diets, methods of preparation and distribution of feed, quality of drinking water, veterinary and preventive and zootechnical measures (vaccination, sanitary treatment of animals, weighing, castration, etc.). When the above factors change, certain reactions occur in the animal body. The nature of stress can be different: mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, mental. Knowledge of the causes of stress, the patterns of its course, its consequences, outlined in the mentioned scientific sources, will allow rational use of the proposed ways to reduce the adverse effects of various stress factors on animals to preserve their health and high productivity.

Publisher

SFSCA RAS

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