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The Official Ameraucana Forum => Housing, Health & Hatching => Topic started by: John W Blehm on May 17, 2015, 10:38:24 PM

Title: drug-free chickens
Post by: John W Blehm on May 17, 2015, 10:38:24 PM

Chicken Producers Replace Antibiotics With Probiotics, Mozart (http://nws.mx/1EPYkdx)

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MOZART AND BLUE LIGHTING

 In Kee Song's Malaysian poultry farm, 20,000 chickens rest on saw dust in the dimly lit barns, with feed and water laced with probiotics being automatically pumped into feeding pans.

 As well as playing Mozart, lighting is used in a bid to keep the birds tranquil with neon blue lighting turned on when the birds are taken for slaughter.

 "Look at the environment, chickens stay healthy and happy here," the firm's Chairman Ong Kee Song told Reuters.

Title: Re: drug-free chickens
Post by: Suki on May 19, 2015, 09:43:56 PM

Quote from: John W Blehm on May 17, 2015, 10:38:24 PM

In Kee Song's Malaysian poultry farm, 20,000 chickens rest on saw dust in the dimly lit barns,

I don't think that is a good setup.  First that the barn is dimly lit isn't healthy, avians need some amount of real light (incandescent or otherwise) for their health but I guess that's moot since they are short-lived.  Second though,  neon blue is not as tranquil as grass green on the spectrum; blue is just as harsh on the eye as red.  You can see www.flux.org  for more.  As for the Mozart, I have no quarrel with that.