Effect of different lighting sources on the performance of broiler breeder hens

IF 1.8 Q2 AGRICULTURE, DAIRY & ANIMAL SCIENCE

Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology Pub Date : 2023-07-30 DOI:10.31893/jabb.23026

A. Soliman, M. Khafaga, F. Soliman, K. El-Sabrout

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Abstract

The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of using light-emitting diode (LED) lamps versus incandescent/tungsten (Inc) bulbs on broiler breeder hens’ productive performance during the brooding and rearing periods (25 weeks), as well as the first 15 weeks of production. A total of 46600 one-day-old Arbor Acres Plus breeder chicks were placed in eight enclosed houses and randomly/evenly divided into two groups (four houses for each group): birds raised under yellow LED lighting, and birds raised under orange Inc lighting. Several traits have been studied to determine productive performance, including body weight at different ages, body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio, mortality rate, uniformity, age and weight at sexual maturity, egg number, egg production rate, egg number per bird, egg weight, and egg mass. According to the findings, using LED lighting instead of Inc lighting during the rearing period resulted in a significant improvement in all studied traits, and this positive effect continued until the production period, yielding excellent results for all studied production traits. LED lighting proved to be an effective source of lighting in broiler breeders’ houses.

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不同光源对肉鸡生产性能的影响

本研究旨在评估使用发光二极管（LED）灯与白炽/钨（Inc）灯泡对肉鸡繁殖期（25周）以及生产前15周生产性能的影响。共有46600只一天大的Arbor Acres Plus繁殖小鸡被放置在八个封闭的房子里，并随机/均匀地分为两组（每组四个房子）：在黄色LED照明下饲养的鸟类和在橙色Inc照明下饲养。为了确定生产性能，已经研究了几个性状，包括不同年龄的体重、体重增加、饲料消耗、饲料转化率、死亡率、均匀性、性成熟时的年龄和体重、蛋数、产蛋率、每只鸟的蛋数、蛋重和蛋质量，在饲养期使用LED照明而不是Inc照明导致所有研究性状的显著改善，并且这种积极影响一直持续到生产期，对所有研究的生产性状产生了优异的结果。LED照明被证明是肉鸡饲养场的有效照明来源。

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Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology Environmental Science-Ecology

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Animal Behaviour and Biometeorology (ISSN 2318-1265) is the official journal of the Center for Applied Animal Biometeorology (Brazil) currently published by Malque Publishing. Our journal is published quarterly, where the published articles are inserted into areas of animal behaviour, animal biometeorology, animal welfare, and ambience: farm animals (mammals, birds, fish, and bees), wildlife (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians), pets, animals in zoos and invertebrate animals. The publication is exclusively digital and articles are freely available to the international community. Manuscript submission implies that the data are unpublished and have not been submitted for publication in other journals. JABB publishes original articles in the form of Original Articles, Short Communications, and Reviews. Original Articles arising from research work should be well grounded in theory and execution should follow the scientific methodology and justification for its objectives; Short Communications should provide sufficient results for a publication in accordance with the Research Article; Reviews should involve the relevant scientific literature on the subject. JABB publishes articles in English only. All articles should be written strictly adopting all the rules of spelling and grammar.