Heat stress poses a significant risk to cows. Rising temperatures can cause problems such as suppressed feed intake and reproductive stress. Koolfog manages heat stress by moderating temperatures in indoor and outdoor dairy environments using durable and effective misting systems and environmental controls to allow for cooling cows in dairies.
| Challenge | Reduce the risk of heat stress in cows during rising temperatures. |
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| Solution | Misting systems and/or misting fans placed in tunnel barns or outdoor facilities help drop core temperatures in cows, reducing the chance for heat stress. |
| Benefits | Effective temperature regulated environments translate to a lower core temperature in all of your cattle and feed intake remains steady and healthy, especially in close-up cows. This translates directly to future production and can reduce fatalities. Efficient means of cooling also allows you to invest your time or capital in other necessary areas of improvement. |
Dairy cows are extremely sensitive to heat stress and extremely reactive to their environment. Maintaining your cattle’s health without the cost of major doses of antibiotics and large investments of time or capital can become a challenge during the warmer times of the year. As soon as a cow’s core temperature begins to rise too high or too suddenly, an onslaught of negative physiological affects can begin to manifest quickly. This can cause problems with reproduction, milk quality, quantity and myriad of other health problems.
There are many methods for cooling for your dairy cows. However, choosing technologies or strategies that are efficient and can still effectively cool large areas can present a challenge. Evaporative cooling is proven to be one of the most efficient and effective processes to create climatically controlled environments, especially for sensitive animals, such as cattle. High-pressure misting systems and misting fans push water through anti-drip nozzle orifices to break the water droplets into tiny particles. These broken water particles take the energy that is in the air (heat) and replace it with water. As each particle is evaporated, a marginal drop in temperature occurs.
With optimal airflow, a high-pressure system strategically situated in dairy stalls can lower ambient temperatures up to 35 degrees, allowing your reproduction rates to be optimal and your milk production the highest possible.
Food production is just like regulating a very large, complex system. It takes both subtle and obvious techniques in order to gain the level of output you desire. Encouraging an environment of consistency for your dairy cows by installing Koolfog’s misting systems improve all of your processes and output, whether in production or quality.
