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Adaptive profile of dairy cows in a tropical region

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The objectives of this study were to determine the main variables which act in the adaptive profile and the dynamic of the thermoregulatory responses of Sindi and Girolando dairy cows in tropical conditions using multivariate analyses as the auxiliary method. Thirty dairy cows were evaluated, in which the data were collected monthly during 12 months. Rectal temperature (RT) and respiratory rate (RR) were measured twice a day (morning and afternoon), along with meteorological variables (air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed), and later the Black Globe and Humidity Index and Radiant Heat Load were calculated. Blood samples were collected for estimating the levels of triiodothyronine (T3), thyroxine (T4), hemoglobin concentration (HC), red blood cells (RBC), packet cell volume (PCV), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), white blood cells (WBC), glucose (GLU), cholesterol (CHO), triglycerides (TRI), creatinine (CRE), total protein (TP), urea (URE), albumin (ALB), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and alanine aminotransferase (ALT). The more active variables in the adaptive profile for Sindi cows were T4, PCV, RBC, WBC, TRI, CRE, HC, T3, and URE, while PCV, RBC, ALB, TP, RT, RR, URE, ALT, and AST variables were more active for Girolando cows. All animals were classified according to their corresponding group when considering all variables under study. The classification error percentage was > 40% in the Sindi cows when the physiological responses were considered, whereas an 80% success rate was observed in Girolando cows in the winter and summer seasons. The physiological responses of the dairy cows are similar in winter and distinct in summer in tropical conditions.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by FUNCAP (Cearense Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development Support, Brazil) Notice N°05/2012. Process number BPI-0067-00197.01/12. SPU 12535962-4.

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  1. Department of Animal Science, State University of Acaraú Valley (UVA), 62040370, Sobral, CE, Brazil

    Angela Maria de Vasconcelos, Cleverton Caçula de Albuquerque, Jefferson Ferreira de Carvalho, Fátima Révia Granja Lima & Robson Mateus Freitas Silveira

  2. Department of Animal Science, Federal Rural University of the Semi-arid Region (UFERSA), 59625900, Mossoró, RN, Brazil

    Débora Andréa Evangelista Façanha & Josiel Ferreira

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The project were designed by A. Vasconcelos with the collaborations of D. Façanha, and R. Granja. The experiment, analysis, data collection were performed by C. Albuquerque, J. Carvalho. The data were analyzed by J. Ferreira and R. Silveira. The paper was written by A. Vasconcelos, R. Silveira, and J. Ferreira.

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All procedures used in this work are in accordance with the ethical standards and have been approved by the Ethics Committee on Animal Use the State University Vale do Acaraú, Sobral (Protocol 027.12.).

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This work was carried out as a result of the Master in Animal Science of Cleverton Caçula de Albuquerque (2014).

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de Vasconcelos, A.M., de Albuquerque, C.C., de Carvalho, J.F. et al. Adaptive profile of dairy cows in a tropical region. Int J Biometeorol 64, 105–113 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01797-9

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