Probiotics and shading as means for alleviating heat stress on hassani goats [electronic resource].

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This study was conducted in Hadraba Valley, Halaieb and Shalateen Research Station, Desert Research Center. The objective of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of providing shade and l or feeding probiotics as means for alleviating heat stress on Hassani goats raised in the far south of the eastern desert of Egypt indicating by thermo- cardio- respiratory responses and changes in some hemato-biochemical parameters. Four groups of mature male Hassani goats (Five animals in each) were used; group-one (G1); kept unshaded without probiotics, group two (G2); kept unshaded and fed probioties. Group three (G3) Shaded and had un supplemented probiotics; While group four (G4); shaded and fed probiotics.

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