El estrés calórico y sus repercusiones en la producción de pollo de engorde: reporte de caso.

Abstract

This case report describes how heat stress occurs in broiler chicken production in the village of Juan Frío (Norte de Santander), taking into account the reported high environmental temperatures and how they influence the physiology of the birds, triggering a series of adaptive physiological mechanisms as compensation for the loss of homeostasis and subsequent analysis of the repercussions that this has on the productive parameters and zootechnical management at the San Francisco poultry farm. Diagnostic alternatives such as observation, interpretation of poultry records and necropsy are carried out in the presence of productive alterations that were accompanied by an ongoing clinical picture that quickly led to the collapse and subsequent death of the birds, which required an unusual therapeutic approach and farm management, with which it was possible to mitigate the negative effects of heat stress on poultry production.