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. 2020 Jan 22;99(3):1369–1378. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2019.11.007

Table 2.

Mean hen-day egg production (%) from the 19th to the 48th wk of age at different cage floors1 subjected to the linear LED strip and conventional LED lamp lighting systems.2

Systems (S)1-floor (F)2 Age (A)
Period 1
Period 2
19–27 19–21 22–24 25–27 28–48 28–30 31–33 34–36 37–39 40–42 43–45 46–48
LS-F1 55.0 26.6 59.5 78.8 92.8a 92.3 91.7a 92.7 94.4 94.2 92.8 91.4
LL-F1 57.3 22.9 63.6 85.4 90.1b 90.2 86.3b 88.0 91.4 91.7 91.8 91.1
LS-F2 58.9 27.1 66.7 82.8 89.9 92.8 84.3 88.6 90.9 92.6 90.7 89.4
LL-F2 55.7 21.5 62.8 82.7 89.4 93.3 87.6 86.8 90.2 91.4 89.4 87.2
LS-F3 52.9 19.2 61.2 78.4 92.0 94.6 89.9 91.4 94.0 92.3 91.1 90.4
LL-F3 53.8 23.3 57.1 80.9 91.0 93.7 88.4 91.0 92.8 90.7 90.4 89.7
LS-F4 59.8 22.4 72.6 84.3 91.7 93.1 89.0 90.8 92.3 91.9 92.7 91.8
LL-F4 61.5 29.2 70.9 84.6 92.0 93.9 90.9 92.5 93.4 92.0 91.8 89.9
LS-F5 62.0 26.9 75.1 84.1 93.2a 96.1 93.3a 91.8 92.3 91.7 94.1 93.0a
LL-F5 62.3 29.4 70.3 87.2 90.8b 92.5 89.3b 90.5 92.4 90.7 90.8 89.6b
SEM 2.02 4.69 2.74 2.33 0.87 1.47 1.48 1.16 1.37 1.08 0.92 0.95
P-value
S 0.759 - - - 0.000 0.154 0.022 0.171 0.131 0.055 0.155 0.001
F 0.032 - - - 0.394 0.269 0.263 0.194 0.613 0.738 0.222 0.255
A 0.001 - - - 0.011 - - - - - - -
S × F 0.143 - - - 0.000 0.312 0.002 0.042 0.142 0.625 0.417 0.036
S × A 0.380 - - - 0.838 - - - - - - -
S × F × A 0.069 - - - 0.002 - - - - - - -

a,bMeans followed by different letters, at each floor and in the same column, differ significantly by Tukey test at P < 0.05.

Mean ± SEM. Period 1 (19–27) n = 6. Period 2 (28–48) n = 14. Subperiods n = 2.

Abbreviation: LED, light-emitting diode.

1

F1 = cage floor 1. F2 = cage floor 2. F3 = cage floor 3. F4 = cage floor 4. F5 = cage floor 5.

2

LS = LED strip. LL = LED lamp.