- [v] [Adaptation to hot climate and strategies to alleviate heat stress in livestock production](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/aad9b29a831dd8599e34b4f9aedb66691f08c92c) - strategies can be classified into three groups: - increasing feed intake or decreasing metabolic heat production, - enhancing heat-loss capacities - genetic selection for heat tolerance. - Although differences in thermal tolerance exist between livestock species (ruminants > monogastrics), there are also large differences between breeds of a species and within each breed. - Under heat stress, improved production should be possible through modifications of diet composition that either: - promotes a higher intake - compensates the low feed consumption. - Altering feeding management such as a change in feeding time and/or frequency are efficient tools to avoid excessive heat load and improve survival rate, especially in poultry.