Nowadays, most of the analysis on thermal comfort in the agricultural environment, with particular reference to animal production environments, use indexes that allow the evaluation of the thermal stress level of a given ...

This application note introduces an app for Android smartphones to create maps of the spatial variability of thermal comfort indexes and meteorological parameters. The application was developed through the Java object-oriented ...

Behaviour can be used to infer animal welfare states. Poultry birds tend to move less under conditions of thermal stress; hence the hypothesis of this research is that this unrest behaviour can be used as an indicator of ...

Sheep production has always played a fundamental role in society throughout history, and it has been highlighted as an important economic activity in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Rio Grande do Sul presents climatic peculiarities ...

Researchers working with thermal comfort have been using enthalpy to measure thermal energy inside rural facilities, establishing indicator values for many situations of thermal comfort and heat stress. This variable turned ...

Reducing production losses due to thermal stress is a challenge for poultry. The cost of operating HVAC systems is high, and precision in identifying critical situations for further action is necessary. Making decisions ...