MUSICAL CHICKENS
Chickens appear healthier and happier and lay more eggs when farmers play music to them, the British researcher Bryan Jones told an international poultry farmers’ gathering in Atlanta. After surveying more than one hundred poultry farmers at a British pig and poultry fair, Jones said that 46% of the farmers routinely played music to their birds. Ninety percent said that birds dosed with music were calmer, 52% said they were less aggressive, 20% reported the overall health of the flock had improved, and 16% claimed increased egg production, Jones said. “We asked the farmers whether some types of music were better than others. They indicated that heavy metal was the worst, but chickens didn’t like opera or jazz either. From The Houston Chronicle
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