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Air Environment and Animal Performance¹

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801

Abstract

Concluding Remarks: The significance of the topic—air environment and animal performance—is still controversial. There are nonetheless reasonable questions which should be asked and answered. Necessary technics have been developed by scientists in other disciplines, but they will require specific adaptation to problems in animal science. There will need to be interest and dynamic collaboration among physiologists, nutritionists, pathologists, applied microbiologists and shelter engineers in tackling these researches. Hopefully, the preceding remarks will have encouraged more study in this currently relevant area. However, it must be recognized that answers to the questions posed here generally deal with physiologic adaptability to air environment; this information will eventually have to be integrated and applied to ascertaining effects of adverse air environments (in the physiologic sense) on nutrient requirements and productive or reproductive performance.

¹ Presented at the Symposium on Influence of Environment on Nutrient Requirements of Animals, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Animal Science, Davis, California, August 2, 1971. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Animal Nutrition, National Research Council.

² Department of Animal Science.