Nutrition Regulation and Stress in Ruminant

Download or read book Nutrition Regulation and Stress in Ruminant written by Xianwen Dong and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stress is an abnormal response of the organism to external environmental stimuli. In the process of breeding production, animals will show various stress reactions due to changes in their physiological functions, environmental conditions, and management levels. Transportation, high temperature, cold, and other stressors could induce protective reactions in the animal body, showing obvious physiological metabolic disorders and non-specific immune dysfunction, disrupting the physiological processes of nutrient metabolism, digestion and absorption, and immune defense, and ultimately leading to a decrease in production performance and feed conversion rate.