Reducing Negative Effect of Heat Stress in Broiler Through Nutritional and Feeding Strategy

Abstract

The broiler is the main meat supplier in Indonesia. The consequences of a tropical country, Indonesia has a high ambient temperature. High ambient temperature in the tropical country is one of the main factors which resulted in broiler exposed by heat stress. One of the important ways to reduce heat stress impact in broiler is through the nutritional and feeding strategy. The objective of the recent study is to review the ways of reducing the negative effect of heat stress in broiler through a nutritional and feeding strategy. The result of the study resulted that heat stress has many negative effects on production performance, health, physiology, reproductive profile, physiological response, and immune response of broiler. These many negative effects of heat stress can be an obstacle in meat chicken production in Indonesia. Therefore, it is important to promote the ways of minimizing the negative effect of heat stress as part of ways to support improving production efficiency in broiler production. It has been concluded that there are several nutritional and feeding strategies that promote to reduce the negative effect of heat stress in the broiler. There are several ways to reduce heat stress in the broiler, i.e., applying wet feeding, free-choice feeding, diurnal feeding patterns, and feeding coarser diets, the use of feed additive, vitamin, mineral, and antioxidant.