Effect of music rhythm on growth performance of growing pigs
1994
Komkrit Ekachat | Chanvit Vajrabukka (Kasetsart Univ., Bangkok (Thailand). Faculty of Agriculture. Dept. of Animal Science)
Fifteen crossbred barrows (Largewhite X Landrace X Duroc) with average liveweight of 30 kg. were divided into 3 treatments (5 pigs/treatment) in a completely randomized design experiment to determine the effects of audio-strees on their growth performance. All the animals were fed with the corn-soyabean based diet. The treatments were natural (silence) sounds, light music and rock and roll music during feeding times, respectively. There was no significant difference in dry matter intake but the DRG of the pigs in the fast rhythm music groups was lower (P0.05) and FCR was higher (P0.05) than the other two groups. Loud noise and fast rhythm music could lower growth performance of the pigs.
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