05 Jul Various Stress and their Mitigation Strategy in Livestock Farming
पशुओं में विभिन्न तनाव और उनकी शमन रणनीति Stress is the necessary response of the living body to maintain homeostasis. The stress response is highly integrated. Livestock responds to various kinds of stress including production, parturition social, environmental stress, and nutritional stress, in a well-coordinated effort of the brain, and other body organs. The stress response is classified into four types; under stress, eustress, overstressed & distressed. Under stress; when an animal feels boredom due to lack of an object of interest, eustress; makes animal produces extraordinary responses called as good stress, overstressed; when environmental condition is not that favourable and produces mild activation stress response, and distressed; when the major stress response is provoked. While livestock raising farmer engaged in so many activities regularly that are not perceived as stressful by the farmer but have a large impact on production and shows poor animal welfare. Like Vaccination, transportation, and improper milking practices. Livestock’ reared in a tropical environment like India has generally been subjected to multiple stresses at a single point in time. In the case of thermal stress aggravated when feed restriction is involved. Stressed animals need at least 30 min to calm down and have their heart rate return to normal. On the other hand, calm animals are less stressed. Negative handling...