ArticleTropical animal health and production2022
Effects of mirror and coloured balls as environmental enrichment tools on performance, welfare and meat quality traits of commercial broiler.
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- Effects of different environmental enrichment tools to improve behavior, welfare, and growth performance of broiler chickens.Tropical animal health and production · 2025Article
- Social Enrichment Improves Affective State and Foraging Behavior Compared to Physical Enrichment, While Maintaining Growth Performance in Broiler Chickens.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Feed additives and enrichment materials to reduce chicken stress, maximize productivity, and improve welfare.Veterinary world · 2024Review
- Environmental Enrichment in Rabbit Husbandry: Comparative Impacts on Performance and Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Using Different Cage Enrichments to Improve Rabbits' Performance, Behavior, and Welfare.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Enhancing their quality of life: environmental enrichment for poultry.Poultry science · 2023Article
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Abstract
This study evaluated the effect of environmental enrichment on the performance, behaviour and welfare aspects; blood biochemistry; carcass and meat quality traits of broiler chickens. A total of 450 straight run broiler chicks (Ross-308) were divided into 5 treatment groups having 6 replicates of 15 birds each under a completely randomised design. Treatments were environmental enrichment (EE) tools and consisted of C = control group; R = red ball for EE; G = green ball for EE; B = blue ball for EE and M = mirror for EE. These environmental enrichment tools were provided throughout the experimental period (0 to 35 days). Mean feed intake per bird was higher in all treatment groups except the blue balls group; weight gain and feed conversion ratio were better in the green and blue ball groups. Broiler chickens reared under different environmental enrichment were more active and they exhibited maintenance behaviour (preening, dust bathing and wing stretching, or scratching) more frequently. Regarding welfare traits, lower incidence of toe damage, footpad dermatitis and hock burn was observed in birds having different environmental enrichment tools as compared to the control group. The birds reared with red balls as environmental enrichment showed the lowest values for glucose, cholesterol, total protein, albumin and globulin amongst all the treatment groups. Birds reared with green balls had the highest body weight at slaughter, dressed weight, carcass yield and liver weight. Breast meat of environmentally enriched treated groups was lighter and had lower ultimate pH. It was concluded that the addition of environmental enrichment tools (visual, structural and plastic) motivates the birds for physical activities and improves the performance of broiler chickens.
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