Responses to Sweetener-Quinine Mixtures in Chicks: Short-term Fluid Intake Test

摘要

Furuta, H., Izumi, H., Dodo, T., Yahata, K., Nishimoto, S. and Bungo, T. 2008. Responses to sweetener quinine mixtures in chicks: short-term fluid intake test. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 33: 133?￠????136. To study behavioral responses to sweet taste stimuli in young chickens, White leghorn chicks were given mixed-solutions of quinine and saccharin or glycine for 10 minutes after being deprived of water for 6 h. The consumption of quinine alone solution was significantly lower than water control (p<0.05), whereas saccharin (1.0 mM) or glycine (0.5 M) produced a recovery from taste aversion of quinine to approximately 82?￠????83% of baseline (control) level. Our results suggest that chicks seem to sense sweetness and this short-term test may be a useful tool to evaluate taste sense for chicks.