Effect of Environmental Color on the Eating Behaviour in Broiler Chicks

色彩環境이 肉鷄의 攝食行動에 미치는 影響

  • Song, Young-Han (Department of Animal Science, College of Animal Agriculture Kangwon National University) ;
  • Ko, Byeong-Dae (Department of Animal Science, College of Animal Agriculture Kangwon National University) ;
  • Chung, Ji-Dong (Department of Animal Science, College of Animal Agriculture Kangwon National University)
  • 송영한 (강원대학교 축산대학 축산학과) ;
  • 고병대 (강원대학교 축산대학 축산학과) ;
  • 정지동 (강원대학교 축산대학 축산학과)
  • Published : 1996.12.01

Abstract

An experiment was carried out to study the effect of environmental color on the eating behaviour in broiler chicks. A total of ninety broilers with average 350g of initial body weight were randomly assigned in the $3{\times}3$ randomized complete block design with 3 treatments(yellow, blue, red) and 10 birds per replication of various environmental color at walls, feeders and electric bulbs. The results obtained from these experiments are summarised as follows: 1. Feed Intake and average daily gain were significantly(P<0.05) increased by yellow colored environment. 2. Eating time and eating rate were significantly higher in the red colored than the other, indicating that yellow colored environment would maximize body weight gain and feed conversion for broiler chicks.

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