Apparently chickens like classical music.
They show that appreciated through production of bigger, heavier eggs. Thian Carmen is an egg farmer in the east coast province of Nova Scotia. In fact, at age 15 he’s the youngest registered farmer in the province, and he proposed an experiment for a science fair..
He had heard about milk producers playing music to soothe cows which produced more milk, so he did an experiment with the 67 chickens he raises for eggs.
He performed an experiment with 10 of the chickens, first measuring and weighing their eggs for two weeks. He then played country music to them for two weeks again weighing and measuring eggs. After another two-week musical hiatus, he played them classical music for two weeks.
The result showed that during the country music segment, the eggs weighed more than those of the other chickens not taking part in the experiment, but that the “classical” music eggs were not only heavier, but noticeably bigger than the control group,
He says his customers certainly preferred the “classical” eggs.
After his experiment won at the regional level, his experiment won him a place on the provincial team which will participate in the Canada-wide science fair which takes May 10-17 in Windsor, Ontario.
In the meantime he says he will continue to experiment with music for his hens, including finding out the effect of heavy metal music on egg production.
(with files from CBC)
For reasons beyond our control, and for an undetermined period of time, our comment section is now closed. However, our social networks remain open to your contributions.