In one minute: Relationship between heat stress and meat quality | PlusVet Animal Health
Genetic selection towards faster growing birds and higher breast yield has made the modern broilers more vulnerable to high temperatures. It is known that nowadays the negative effects of heat stress in commercial strains are observed at lower temperatures than several decades ago.
Besides the negative effects of heat stress on the oxidative status of the animals, egg quality, reproductive performance, gut health and immune response, exposure to high temperatures also impairs the quality of poultry meat.
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