Cold stress: Feed utilisation and performance in broilers

Cold stress adversely affects the run of the digestive and metabolic processes and other biological functions in chickens. This may occur to a varying extent depending on factors such as: breed age weight feathering humidity airflow exposure time In most cases, however, chickens under cold stress conditions often exhibit reduced performance and impaired health due to changes in the internal body systems. The following is a review of these effects and the ways of keeping them at minimum leve