Low Airspeed Impacts on Tom Turkey Response to Moderate Heat Stress

Abstract

Heat stress is a concern for turkeys in naturally ventilated houses. Chamber and room studies were used to assess heat stress at moderate temperatures (3·min−1·kg−1 or 100%, 75%, 50%, and 30% or Control) were applied to 21-week toms housed at −1 vs. still air on the USDA broiler wind chill curve. Machine vision combined with IR thermography could alleviate real-time poultry heat stress.

Keywords

• infrared camera
• ventilation
• subcutaneous
• wind chill
• weight gain
• hematocrit