My superspectacular High SCHOOL agriculture science project :D

[Kim_NC]

Can you rotate them around? Find out if their laying changes by changing conditions? I'm thinking there may be a poor layer or two. Or it would be interesting to know if the best layers continue under all situations.

Neat idea for a project!

 

[lovinthechickens]

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Rotating them would mess up the project. You see, the caged birds have been caged all their lives. Moving them to the ground would stress them out. And the P2 and CFR birds have been on the ground all their lives. Puting then in a tiny little cage would stress them out also.

And thaks

 

[redhen]

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Rotating them would mess up the project. You see, the caged birds have been caged all their lives. Moving them to the ground would stress them out. And the P2 and CFR birds have been on the ground all their lives. Puting then in a tiny little cage would stress them out also.

And thaks

but isnt that the point of the test??? to see what stresses the birds?? and i bet that the battery birds would get over being on the ground real quick and be happy... many have saved battery birds and the birds LOVED being free..

 

[lovinthechickens]

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Rotating them would mess up the project. You see, the caged birds have been caged all their lives. Moving them to the ground would stress them out. And the P2 and CFR birds have been on the ground all their lives. Puting then in a tiny little cage would stress them out also.

And thaks

but isnt that the point of the test??? to see what stresses the birds?? and i bet that the battery birds would get over being on the ground real quick and be happy... many have saved battery birds and the birds LOVED being free..

The point is to see which type produces the most, and by that, i can compare the results to see which is the most stressed.
So i want the birds to be at peak condition, and laying like mad. I dont want to throw them off by taking happy little freerange chickens and puting the in little metal cages. xD

 

[JennsPeeps]

To test your results - for a future project - you'll need to put the low production P2 layers into a battery cage situation to see if their production increases, and put the battery hens into the P2 cages. If their production rates change to match the results you're seeing now, then you will have more data to support your hypothesis that stress doesn't affect egg laying.

 

[redhen]

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right, that is what i was trying to say....

 

[cherig22]

Interesting, please keep posting. I would like to see this project continue with the switching, after the initial test is done.

Cheri

 

[lovinthechickens]

Today is the last day.
In my eyes battery won out.
No hard feelings, but their production was at least double the P2...
Thanks for all the support!
I will be continuing this next year.

I will post pics of my set-up soon