Stress Free

Environmental Stress

Weather

  • Temperature

  • Wind

  • Wet

Nutrition

  • Water

  • Minerals and Nutrients

  • Toxins

Life Cycle Stress

Calving

Weaning

Death

Handling Stress

Facilities

  • Reducing stress has so many benefits - weight gain, breeding back and reduced injuries for cattle and handlers

  • There are many forms of stress - environmental (heat, cold, sun, wind, shelter), chronic (endophytic, polluted water, nutritional or mineral deficit) or handling related (rough, loud etc)

  • Some forms of stress are positive and epigenetic and anti-fragile, whereas others are to be avoided at all costs

  • Handling, Birth, Weaning, Death

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