Title
Effect of summer andwinterair temperature and humidity on productive parameters of broiler chickens raised in the city of Lima
Other title
INFLUENCIA DE LA TEMPERATURA Y HUMEDAD AMBIENTAL DEL VERANO E INVIERNO SOBRE PARÁMETROS PRODUCTIVOS DE POLLOS DE CARNE CRIADOS EN LA CIUDAD DE LIMA
Date Issued
01 January 2008
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Carlos Tolentino M.
Pablo Reyna S.
Ricardo Valdivia R.
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
This study was carried out to evaluate the influence of environmental temperature and humidity on productive performance of Cobb-Vantress 500 broiler chickens reared for 45 days under an open broiler house during the winter and summer seasons (2004). The trial comprised 720 1-day-old chickens (360 chickens per season using 5 repetitions of 34 males and 38 females each). Body weight, body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion index, mortality, body size uniformity, and productive efficiency index were evaluated. Weekly body weight and body weight gain were statistically different between birds reared in winter and summer (p<0.05). The higher temperature during summer affected feed consumption, body weight and productive efficiency index but did not affect feed conversion index. The rearing of broiler chickens, both males and females, during the summer season as compared to winter season resulted in 200 and 100 g less per bird of body weight respectively.
Start page
9
End page
14
Volume
19
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84856461549
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
Sponsor(s)
The authors are thankful to Defence Research and Development Organization, New Delhi for providing grant to carry out the research work.
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