Comparison between the coat temperature of the eland and dairy cattle by infrared thermography

Physiological Responses and In-Vitro Volatile Fatty Acid Production in Cattle

“…The differences in skin temperatures at different portions were related to diurnal changes and depend upon the heat production of the animals, colour and other properties of the coat and on the solar radiation. Kotrba et al, (2007) had applied same equipment infrared thermography for assessing surface temperature and found that elands exposed to cold environmental temperatures had low surface temperatures, similar to cattle which are comparable to our present finding. During the higher energy intake, animal tries to increase the body temperature in order to increase the gradient for heat loss to the environment .This further increases metabolic requirements as per the Newton's law of cooling.…”

Thermal efficiency of individual shelters for girolando calves in brazilian semi-arid regions

“…TSC mean values were similar to those found by KOTRBA et al (2007) in Holstein dairy cattle, also by means of therm al ima ges rec orde d in environme nts with mea n tem pe rature at 29. 2 °C.…”

Application of infrared thermography as an indicator of heat and methane production and its use in the study of skin temperature in response to physiological events in dairy cattle (Bos taurus)

“…Despite the fact that the early investigations (Whittow, 1962;Kliber et al, 1970;Bitman et al, 1983) had employed equipment other than IR thermography for assessing temperature, their results are quite comparable to studies where such technology was applied (Hurnik et al, 1985;Schaefer et al, 2004;Kotrba et al, 2007). The rear area surface temperature was approximately 3.0 1C lower than the deep-body temperature usually expected for cattle (Whittow, 1962), which is similar to the IR scan values obtained by Berry et al (2003) in the udder of dairy cows.…”