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. 2021 Jun 12;100(9):101328. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2021.101328

Table 6.

Effects of providing different colored LED lights during incubation on cloaca temperature (°C) at 36 h posthatch in broiler chickens.

Light n1 Male Female Average
Dark 7 39.7 ± 0.04 39.8 ± 0.04 39.7 ± 0.03b
White 8 39.8 ± 0.04 40.0 ± 0.04 39.9 ± 0.03a
Red 8 39.8 ± 0.04 40.0 ± 0.04 39.9 ± 0.03a
Blue 8 39.9 ± 0.04 39.9 ± 0.04 39.9 ± 0.03a

Average 39.8 ± 0.02y 39.9 ± 0.02x

Effect ANOVA P-value

Lighting (L) 0.001
Gender (G) <0.0001
L x G 0.171
Block <0.0001
1

Number of experimental units. Experimental unit = 3 pens of birds hatched from the same incubator.

a,bMeans within a column with different letters differ significantly according to Tukey-Kramer test (α = 0.05).

x,yMeans within a row with different letters differ significantly according to Tukey-Kramer test (α = 0.05).