METHOD FOR FEEDING POULTRY

• US 20150156992A1
• Filed: 02/04/2014
• Published: 06/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nihon Funen Co., Ltd., Tokushima Prefecture
• Original Assignee: Nihon Funen Co., Ltd., Tokushima Prefecture
• Inventors: Kasahara, Takeshi, Shimizu, Masaaki, Matsunaga, Tatsuji, Kume, Tokuo, Wada, Takahiro, Yoshida, Kenichi, Okamoto, Masayuki, Ohshima, Chikamitsu, Doi, Shigeki
• Application Number:
  US14/411,451
• Publication Number:
  US 20150156992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 31/00 Housing birds
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 31/22 Poultry runs ; Poultry houses, including auxiliary features, e.g. feeding, watering, demanuring air-conditioning of poultry runs or houses A01K1/0047
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 45/00 Other aviculture appliances, e.g. devices for determining whether a bird is about to lay
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/52 use of renewable energies

Abstract

A method for producing poultry for raising poultry with high production score is provided.

In a method for producing poultry in a poultry house, a feeding area for feeding the poultry is illuminated with blue light in an early raising period of a poultry raising period. In the early raising period, behavior of chicks can be restricted by illuminating the feeding area with blue light. Accordingly, sudden death of chick or metabolic disorder due to excessive and abrupt behavior of chick can be prevented, and thus chicks not having injury or diseases such as metabolic disorder can be raised, and physical conditions of the grown poultry can be improved.

Claims

1. A method for producing poultry in a poultry house, wherein

in an early raising period of a poultry raising period,

a feeding area for feeding the poultry is illuminated with blue light.

2. The method for producing poultry according to claim 1, wherein

the blue light is applied throughout the poultry raising period.

3. The method for producing poultry according to claim 1, wherein

in a late raising period of the poultry raising period,

the feeding area is illuminated with white light.

4. The method for producing poultry according to claim 3, wherein

in a transition period that is between the early raising period and the late raising period,

the feeding area is illuminated with light of an intermediate color that is between the blue light and the white light.

5. The method for producing poultry according to claim 1, wherein

a preparatory period is provided before the early raising period or in an initial period of the early raising period, and

the feeding area is illuminated with non-blue light in the preparatory period.

6. The method for producing poultry according to claim 1, wherein

illuminance of light for illuminating the feeding area in the late raising period is adjusted so that illuminance in the late raising period is higher than illuminance in the early raising period.

7. The method for producing poultry according to claim 6, wherein illuminance of light in the late raising period is more than or equal to 30 1×

.

8. The method for producing poultry according to claim 6, wherein

illuminance of light in the early raising period is less than or equal to 15 1×

.

9. The method for producing poultry according to claim 8, wherein

illuminance of light in the transition period is more than or equal to illuminance of light in the early raising period and less than or equal to illuminance of light in the late raising period.