Growth Performance, Blood Biochemical Changes, Carcass Traits and Nutrient Digestibility of Growing Japanese Quail Fed on Various Dietary Protein and Calcium Levels

El-Katcha, Mohamed I.; Soltan, Mosaad A.; Ramdan, Ramdan; Sheaita, S; Naggar, El; ElShobokshy, M

doi:10.5455/ajvs.171987

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“…However El-Katcha et al (2014) recommend a diet with 21% crude protein and 1.0% calcium (or 25% more calcium than NRC recommendation) in growing Japanese ration to improve growth performance and feed efficiency parameters.…”

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Calcium Requirement and Vitamin D Supplementation in Meat-Type Quail at First Stage of Growth

Perine

Grieser

Furlan

et al. 2022

Braz. J. Poult. Sci.

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Currently, feed formulations for quail are based on foreign data or data from other species; this undermines productivity with the use of excessive or deficient levels of some nutrients. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the nutritional requirement levels of calcium (Ca) and supplementation vitamin D in meat-type quail from 1 to 14 d of age. The experiment was a 4 × 4 factorial arrangement of treatments (levels of Ca: 0.42, 0.58, 0.74 and 0.90% and levels of vitamin D: 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 and 4,000 IU) with 3 replicate pens and 43 quails per pen. Weight gain increased quadratically with increased levels of Ca and vitamin D; this variable yielded estimated levels of 0.73% Ca and 2,883 IU vitamin D. There was no Ca x vitamin D interaction effect on bone variables. Bone Ca, bone phosphorus, bone ash, femoral bone strength, tibial bone strength and the femoral Seedor index increased quadratically with an increase in Ca levels. These variables yielded estimated values of 0.78, 0.71, 0.78, 0.77, 0.83, and 0.71% Ca, respectively. It is concluded that the requirements of Ca and vitamin D for the maximum weight gain of meat-type quails, in the period from one to 14 days of age, were 0.73% Ca (p=0.001) and 2,883 IU vitamin D (p=0.02), respectively.

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Calcium Requirement and Vitamin D Supplementation in Meat-Type Quail at First Stage of Growth

Perine

Grieser

Furlan

et al. 2022

Braz. J. Poult. Sci.

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“…Quail is not only an agricultural bird but also is one of the ideal vertebrate models used to study a variety of investigations (10). More recently, in third countries, this species has been housed as an alternative source of animal protein (11,12). There is much study regarding the prehatching skeletal development of Galliformes, and many authors did research concerning quail such as (13)(14)(15).…”

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Development of the wing bones in quail’s embryo; Coturnix japonica

Zorab¹,

Salih²

2021

IJVS

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“…In a later study, Shayan et al (2013) demonstrated that growth performance of Japanese quail was not affected by dietary CP level. El-Katcha et al (2014) concluded that feeding dietary CP level of 21% could improve the growth performance and feed efficiency of Japanese quail chicks. While Rabie and Abo El-Maaty (2015) indicated that the ideal CP level is 24% for quail from 2 up to 6 weeks of age.…”

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Impact of Dietary Protein Level and Feed Additives on Growth Performance and Carcass Traits of Japanese Quail

Sherif

2023

EPSJ

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A study was performed to investigate the effect of dietary protein level and addition of yeast or exogenous enzymes on growth performance and carcass characteristics of Japanese quail. A factorial completely randomized design (3×3), three dietary protein levels (24, 21.6 and 19.2%) without or with two feed additives was used. Five hundred and forty quails were randomly divided into nine groups, kept in cages, fed their respective experimental diets and managed similarly from 2 to 6 weeks of age. The obtained results illustrated that growth performance of quails did not affected by dietary protein level. Quails fed enzyme-enriched diets achieved better feed conversion than the control birds. Feeding yeast-supplemented diets improved the final body weight and weight gain of quails compared with the control birds. Economic efficiency of feeding (EEF) and carcass characteristics were not influenced by dietary protein level, feed additives and their interaction. In conclusion, decreasing dietary CP level from 24 to 19.2% does not compromise the growth performance, economic efficiency or carcass traits of quails. Dietary yeast supplementation has a beneficial effect on growth performance of quails, regardless of dietary CP level.

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Growth Performance, Blood Biochemical Changes, Carcass Traits and Nutrient Digestibility of Growing Japanese Quail Fed on Various Dietary Protein and Calcium Levels

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Calcium Requirement and Vitamin D Supplementation in Meat-Type Quail at First Stage of Growth

Calcium Requirement and Vitamin D Supplementation in Meat-Type Quail at First Stage of Growth

Development of the wing bones in quail’s embryo; Coturnix japonica

Impact of Dietary Protein Level and Feed Additives on Growth Performance and Carcass Traits of Japanese Quail

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