Coolcare
Maintaining the highest standard of welfare and production
Heat stress is a huge challenge during warm summer
Heat stress is defined as 'a physiological state affecting the acid-base balance and blood pH of animals'. Heat stress: - Causes physiological imbalances - Lowers production efficiency - Harms animal health and welfare Heat stress can bring about significant financial losses for farmers due to the suboptimal production of milk, meat or eggs. Heat stress affects the animals' health and fertility and can ultimately result in (high) mortality. De Heus has developed management, health and feed solutions to minimise the effect of heat stress.
CoolCare supports animals during heat stress
The CoolCare solution supports animal fertility, health and welfare on your farm, maintains animal performance and reduces stress caused by heat. To support you in reducing the impact of heat stress, De Heus has developed for each species a practical heat stress approach. This consists of a combination of feeding strategies, additives, management insights and management recommendations. This integrated concept helps you to minimise the effects of heat stress on your animals' well-being and on production. Consequently, it also leads to better outcomes on the farm and more working pleasure. The CoolCare approach is tailored to suit the needs of different species, such as ruminants, swine and poultry.
- Reduced negative impact of heat stress on animal production and welfare.
- More working pleasure
- Better feed efficiency
Tailored to each animal species
The CoolCare app
Mitigate the risk of heat stress for poultry, ruminants and pigs with help of the CoolCare app. The app can also provide recommendations about how you can limit the negative impact of heat stress on animal performance and animal welfare.
Download in the Google Play or App storeFrequently asked question about coolcare
We have the answers to your questions
Our approach will help you to identify heat stress (with the app) at an early stage. It enables you to take action at both the nutritional and management levels to support your animals during this period.
By understanding the physiological consequences of heat stress, we not only try to alleviate the negative impact of heat stress on animals (curing), but we also try to prevent these consequences from occurring in the first place. In other words, our approach is proactive and not simply reactive.
Our approach doesn't focus solely on selling you more of our feed as the perfect solution against heat stress. The tools we develop allow for objective advice on what steps you can take to have the best possible impact. These can be changes related to nutrition but also to management.
Contact one of our specialistsOur approach targets the animals. We focus on how to support them during periods of heat stress. There definitely is an impact on performance and consequently also a financial impact, but our initial aim is to alleviate the negative impact on the animals' welfare and health by addressing the physiological issues at hand as a consequence of heat stress.
You can find the CoolCare app in the Google Play Store and in the App Store.
