Shakirov ShK, Safina NYu, Aminova AL, Mustafin IG, Shiriev VM.

Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2025. Vol. 108. No. 1. Р. 96-114.

doi:10.33284/2658-3135-108-1-96

Review article

Consequences of the heat stress in forage production and animal husbandry

and ways to solve them

 

Shamil K Shakirov1,6, Natalia Yu Safina2, Albina L Aminova3, Irek G Mustafin4, Vakil M Shiriev5

1,2Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture - a separate structural subdivision of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Federal Research Center "Kazan Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences", Kazan, Russia

3,4,5,6Experimental station "Ufimskaya" - a separate structural subdivision of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia

1,6intechkorm@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3362-0463

2natysafina@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1184-3188

3albina_ufa@list.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2738-4692

4oph_ufimskoе@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5532-450X

5vakil2005@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8223-0961

 

Abstract. In the agro-industrial complex, in the conditions of an increasing number of extremely high summer droughts, there is an objective need for structurally significant changes in the feed production feedstock conveyor by introducing non-traditional drought-resistant forage crops - Sudan grass, sorghum and sorghum-Sudan hybrids, as well as forage crops with a short growing season for an uninterrupted supply of livestock with feed. Under heat stress, it is important to use properly selected high-quality feed and special feed additives that reduce the production of metabolic heat in the body, as well as to adjust feeding regimes, monitor the level of the temperature-humidity index, the indicators of which will allow a timely assessment of the need for cooling of animals. The article presents overview information on the state of forage production and livestock farming in conditions of extremely high temperatures. The papers of Russian and foreign authors on various practical strategies for mitigating the effects of heat stress in the maintenance and feeding of cows, which may be useful to specialists in the field of dairy farming, were reviewed.

Keywords: global warming, forage crops, cattle breeding, heat stress, temperature-humidity index, diet, feeding, productivity, embryo productivity

Acknowledgments: the work was performed in accordance to the plan of research works for 2022-2024 of the Experimental Station "Ufimskaya" of the Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (No. 224020600680-2).

For citation: Shakirov ShK, Safina NYu, Aminova AL, Mustafin IG, Shiriev VM. Consequences of the heat stress in forage production and animal husbandry and ways to solve them (review). Animal Husbandry and Fodder Production. 2025;108(1):96-114. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.33284/2658-3135-108-1-96

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Information about the authors:             

Shamil K Shakirov, Dr. Sci. (Agriculture), Professor, Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture, Federal Research Center “Kazan Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, Kazan, Orenburgskiy tract, 48, 420259, tel.: +7 (843) 2778117; Ufimskaya Experimental Station, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 Oktyabrya ave., Ufa, 450054, tel.: +7 (347) 2356022.

Natalia Yu Safina, Cand. Sci. (Biology), Senior Researcher, Tatar Research Institute of Agriculture, Federal Research Center “Kazan Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences”, 48 Orenburgsky tract, Kazan, 420259, tel.: +7 (843) 2778117.

Albina L Aminova, Dr. Sci. (Biology), Leading Researcher, Ufimskaya Experimental Station, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Oktyabrya Avenue, 71, 450054, tel.: +7 (347) 2356022.

Irek G Mustafin, Cand. Sci (Agriculture), Ufimskaya Experimental Station, Ufa Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 Oktyabrya Avenue, Ufa, 450054, tel.: +7 (347) 2356022.

Vakil M Shiriev, Dr. Sci. (Biology), Professor, Ufimskaya Experimental Station, Ufa Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 71 Oktyabrya Avenue, Ufa, 450054, tel.: +7 (347) 2356022.

The article was submitted 28.01.2025; approved after reviewing 27.02.2025; accepted for publication 17.03.2025.

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