VIANA, M. P.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7246394421435633; VIANA, Maira Porto.
Resumo:
This work aims to make a literature review on the physiological changes caused by
thermal stress in goats. Many literature reviews and various authors at various locations
were analyzed, the main one being the Northeast, as an area where the agricultural
sector, and especially the goat culture, has great economic importance. The research
allowed the confirmation of several amendments, such as in milk composition and on
seminal characteristics, hormonal, respiratory rate, respiratory minute volume,
respiratory evaporation, thermolysis, rectal temperature, sweat rate. Thus, conclude that
the thermal stress influences the goat productive and reproductively, confirming the
need to seek methods or actions that reduce the influence of these temperatures and
enable the best productivity for these animals.