British farmer Steve Led sham was surprised when his chickens started laying eight eggs a week instead of the usual four. This increase seemed to coincide with the building of a new barn where Weber's music was being played to entertain the workers. This music relaxed the birds and increased egg production.
The cows produced more milk when they listened to calming music. Researchers at the University of Leicester exposed Frisian cattle to different types of music for twelve hours a day for 60 days. The slow music like the Pastoral Symphony of Beethoven and the Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel’s increased the milk production by about 3%.
The winning music in a contest run by the British Columbia Dairy Association was the lyric-less tunes of “A Moo Down Milk Lane” by Tzu-Deng Jerry D.