Effect of the use of synthetic sound during incubation in chicken

Abstract

In the present work the effect of the use of synthetic sound during incubation in chicken of the Hampshire breed was studied. For the stimulation, an electronic sound generator with amplitude of power 1250 mV and time interval of 134 ms, 176 ms, 210 ms and 380 ms was used. The study was carried out in three experiments. In the 1 st experiment we tried to determine the influence of sound stimulation on the hatching of chickens from egg set of the variant of weight. In the 2 nd experiment we tried to determine the influence of the variant of the beginning of sound stimulation on chicken hatching. In the 3 rd experiment we tried to determine the influence of sound stimulation with constant amplitude of power and the variant of the time interval on chicken hatching. The most suitable eggs to be used for the stimulation with synthetic sound are the ones with the weight of 58.0-60.0g. In this weight category, the chickens hatched earliest of all the groups and there was no decrease in hatchability either. In order to achieve an earlier beginning of beak clapping, a faster whole group beak clapping time, and a shorter hatching time of chickens, sound stimulation should begin at the 433 rd hour of hatching. At the constant amplitude of power of the stimulating sound, the earliest hatching was observed when the time interval was 176 ms. Less suitable for stimulation are the time intervals 134 ms and 380 ms.

Keywords

• synthetic sound
• incubation
• chicken