scholarly journals Interrelationship between Feed Intake of Layers and Environmental Temperature

1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
MASANORI AKIYOSHI
Author(s):  
M.R. Cropper ◽  
D.P. Poppi

Lambs are known to change their feed intake in relation to environmental temperature (Blaxter, 1962). However, their ability to select a non-limiting diet, when free-choice fed, has only been investigated in a thermoneutral environment (Cropper, 1987). The aim of this experiment was to test the idea that, at low and high ambient temperature, (a) feed intake would increase in the cold and decrease in the hot, relative to a thermoneutral control, and that (b) the protein content of the diet selected would be lower and higher respectively.


1993 ◽  
Vol 121 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. Smith ◽  
R. G. Teeter

SUMMARYBroiler chicks reared under three environmental temperatures (7·2, 23·9 and 35 °C) in the Southeastern United States of America in 1988/89 were precision-fed to levels which were c. 70, 90, 110 and 130% of the consumption observed in ad libitum-fed controls at 23·9°C, in order to examine the limitations imposed by feed intake upon growth rate, feed efficiency and survival. Ad libitum-fed birds that were housed at 7·2, 23·9 and 35 °C consumed feed at 12·1, 9·4 and 8·5% of body weight, respectively. Liveweight gain of birds consuming feed ad libitum was depressed by 26 and 46% in the 7·2 and 35 °C environments respectively. Increasing feed intake by precision feeding exceeded ad libitum consumption in the 23·9 and 35 °C environments, but not at 7·2 °C. Consumption of feed above thermoneutral ad libitum levels failed to increase (p <0·l) liveweight of carcass gain. Ration digestibility and dressing out percentage declined (P < 0·05) at the higher feed intake levels in the 7·2 °C environment.


1971 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. R. Morrison ◽  
L. E. Mount

SUMMARYPigs fed ad libitum were exposed to changes from 22 to 33°C and from 33 to 20°C. Responses were investigated in two groups of animals kept for three successive periods of four weeks at 22°, 33° and finally 20°C.Twenty-four hr after the first change, from 22 to 33°C, there was a decline in body weight; after the second change, from 33 to 20°C, there was a large increase. After the change to 33°C, feed intake by the second day and growth rate for the first week were about the same as at the end of the four weeks, but about 12 days were required for water intake, rectal temperature and respiratory rate to reach steady values.After the change from 33 to 20°C, steady values for respiratory rate and rectal temperature were reached in one and 12 days respectively. The rate of gain in weight increased to reach a peak nine days following the temperature change and then declined.


1968 ◽  
Vol 39 (11) ◽  
pp. 456-461
Author(s):  
Sadaki YAMAMOTO ◽  
Jin HAGA ◽  
Akio FUJISAWA ◽  
Satoshi ARA ◽  
Yasushi OTOMO ◽  
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1974 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 1043-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik M. Ahmad ◽  
F.B. Mather ◽  
Earl W. Gleaves

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