The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens
The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of grass pasture on the performance of slowly growing chickens. Both sexes (72 chickens) of the slowly growing hybrid Hubbard JA 757 were used in the experiment, which was carried out in the summer 2015. The chickens were divided into two groups with s...
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| description | The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of grass pasture on the performance of slowly growing chickens. Both sexes (72 chickens) of the slowly growing hybrid Hubbard JA 757 were used in the experiment, which was carried out in the summer 2015. The chickens were divided into two groups with six replications. After 34 days of age, half of the chickens were transferred to outdoor fields to the transferable cages (EXP). The second half of chickens stayed in the house in a controlled microclimate condition. The live weight of chickens at 63 days of age was 2.93 kg in the EXP and 3.14 kg in the CON, and there was no significant difference between the groups (P > 0.05). However, the live body gain between 34 and 63 days of ages was significantly affected by the pasture (P ≤ 0.01), and it was 2.02 kg in EXP and 2.45 kg in CON. Feed conversion ratio during the experimental period was also significantly different in the groups (P ≤ 0.01), 2.60 in EXP and 1.97 in CON. High average daily temperature 28.7 °C had a main negative effect on the performance of chickens. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-33a15578540644eb96aa01bcc19454cc2022-12-22T03:02:52ZengMendel University PressActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis1211-85162464-83102016-01-016451435143910.11118/actaun201664051435The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing ChickensVojtěch Anderle0Martina Lichovníková1Pavel Nevrkla2Lucie Kupčíková3Department of Animal Breeding, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Animal Breeding, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Animal Breeding, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech RepublicDepartment of Animal Breeding, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech RepublicThe aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of grass pasture on the performance of slowly growing chickens. Both sexes (72 chickens) of the slowly growing hybrid Hubbard JA 757 were used in the experiment, which was carried out in the summer 2015. The chickens were divided into two groups with six replications. After 34 days of age, half of the chickens were transferred to outdoor fields to the transferable cages (EXP). The second half of chickens stayed in the house in a controlled microclimate condition. The live weight of chickens at 63 days of age was 2.93 kg in the EXP and 3.14 kg in the CON, and there was no significant difference between the groups (P > 0.05). However, the live body gain between 34 and 63 days of ages was significantly affected by the pasture (P ≤ 0.01), and it was 2.02 kg in EXP and 2.45 kg in CON. Feed conversion ratio during the experimental period was also significantly different in the groups (P ≤ 0.01), 2.60 in EXP and 1.97 in CON. High average daily temperature 28.7 °C had a main negative effect on the performance of chickens.https://acta.mendelu.cz/64/5/1435/live body weightfeed conversion ratiogreen fodder |
| spellingShingle | Vojtěch Anderle Martina Lichovníková Pavel Nevrkla Lucie Kupčíková The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis live body weight feed conversion ratio green fodder |
| title | The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens |
| title_full | The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens |
| title_short | The Effect of Grass Pasture on the Performance of Slowly Growing Chickens |
| title_sort | effect of grass pasture on the performance of slowly growing chickens |
| topic | live body weight feed conversion ratio green fodder |
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