This study aimed to evaluate roof covering strategies and artificial ventilation on comfort indices of broilers. For the assessment of thermal indices, randomized design in split plots was used in a 2 x 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. Two management treatments of roof covering (with and without reflective paint) and two internal management (with and without artificial ventilation), totalizing 4 treatments were evaluated for 40 days, taking the days as replications. The studies were conducted in IFG - Urutaí Campus from December/2009 to January/2010. As environmental variables the dry bulb temperature, wet bulb, black globe, relative humidity and wind speed were considered and then the thermal indices THI, BGHI, ETI, RMT and RTR were calculated. Data were analysed by the SISVAR program, through the variance analysis and means were compared by Scott Knott test at 0.05 probability. The combination of white paint covering and artificial ventilation proved to be effective in improving the studied environmental thermal comfort. The use of paint or artificial ventilation in an isolated way was not efficient.
aviculture; environment; farm constructions
