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Productive qualities of chickens under various lighting spectra

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It is established that the use of low-power fluorescent lamps of various lighting spectra (white, blue, green, and red) compared with incandescent lamps led to a decrease of poultry survival and productivity and increase of feed consumption per unit product.

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  1. All-Russian Poultry Husbandry Research and Technological Institute, Moscow oblast, 141300, Russia

    A. Sh. Kavtarashvili, E. N. Novotorov, T. N. Volkonskaya & S. P. Ridzhal

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Original Russian Text © A.Sh. Kavtarashvili, E.N. Novotorov, T.N. Volkonskaya, S.P. Ridzhal, 2007, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Sel’skokhozyaistvennykh Nauk, 2007, No. 2, pp. 39–41.

Recommended by V.I. Fisinin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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Kavtarashvili, A.S., Novotorov, E.N., Volkonskaya, T.N. et al. Productive qualities of chickens under various lighting spectra. Russ. Agricult. Sci. 33, 118–120 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068367407020152

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