Table 1. Effect of LED colors on overall performance in brown laying hens housed on floor
Parameters | LED colors | SEM | P-values |
Red | Blue | Green | White |
HDEP (%) | 87.24A | 85.38Ab | 83.79C | 86.05Ab | 0.398 | 0.005 |
Egg weight (g/egg) | 62.98B | 63.63B | 64.88A | 63.08B | 0.257 | 0.013 |
Egg mass (g/day/bird) | 53.90 | 54.12 | 54.30 | 54.33 | 0.316 | 0.969 |
Feed intake (g/day/bird) | 138.61 | 133.27 | 134.65 | 135.15 | 0.768 | 0.066 |
FCR | 2.57 | 2.47 | 2.48 | 2.50 | 0.016 | 0.099 |
HDEP, Hen day egg production; FCR, Feed conversion ratio (g feed : g egg mass); SEM, Standard error of means.
Means in same rows with different superscripts are significantly different (P<0.05).