EFFECT OF FLOOR SPACE ON LAYER PERFOMANCE UNDER WIKEFLOOR SYSTEM OF REARING

Abstract

An experiment was conducted wide strain crass White Leghorn layers (ILM-90) from 20 to T 44 weeks of ,age to assess the effect of floor space levels on the production performance of birds raised on wire floors. Two levels of floor space viz., 470 and 700 cm2 per bird were studied. The overall mean hen-housed egg production was significantly higher (P< 0.01) with floor space of •700 cm2 per bird (60.27%) than those reared with floor space of 470 cm2/bird (51.81 % ). The feed efficiency was better wide a Floor space level of 470 cm'-/bird than those provided with 700 cm2/bird flag space, but it was not statistically significant.