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The Effects Of Rations Containing Ad Libitum Limestone Grit With Whole Flaxseed On Quails?Performance, Egg Quality, And Blood Parameters, Kadi̇r Emre Buğdayci, Fatma Karakaş Oğuz, Mustafa Numan Oğuz, Cafer Mercan
The Effects Of Rations Containing Ad Libitum Limestone Grit With Whole Flaxseed On Quails?Performance, Egg Quality, And Blood Parameters, Kadi̇r Emre Buğdayci, Fatma Karakaş Oğuz, Mustafa Numan Oğuz, Cafer Mercan
Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
The purpose of this research is to determine the effects of consuming feed rations containing ad libitum limestone grit with whole or ground flaxseed (10%) on quails? performance, egg quality (shape index, albumen index, yolk index, and Haugh unit), and some blood parameters (hematocrit, cholesterol, and triglyceride) during a period of 8 weeks. Five weeks old quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica; 140 in total) were divided into control and 4 trial groups. The rations of the first (W) and second (G) trial groups consisted of whole or ground flaxseeds (10%), respectively. The composition of the rations of the third (Wg) and …
Productive Performance, Egg Quality, And Hatching Traits Of Japanese Quail Lines Selectedfor Higher Body Weight And Egg Number, Abdur Rehman, Jibran Hussain, Athar Mahmud, Khalid Javed, Abdul Ghayas, Sohail Ahmad
Productive Performance, Egg Quality, And Hatching Traits Of Japanese Quail Lines Selectedfor Higher Body Weight And Egg Number, Abdur Rehman, Jibran Hussain, Athar Mahmud, Khalid Javed, Abdul Ghayas, Sohail Ahmad
Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
The present study evaluated the effect of selection for higher body weight (weight based selection = WBS) and egg numbers (egg based selection = EBS) on productivity, egg quality, and hatching traits of Japanese quail for three generations. From a base population of 1125 day-old chicks of Japanese quail, best performing families were allowed to propagate for getting next generation. WBS in G3 presented higher values of feed intake, egg weight, hatching weight. However, egg production and feed conversion ratio were better in EBS during G3. The incidence of embryonic mortality was also lower in the WBS line. In the …
Acute Phase Proteins, Endocrine And Productive Responses Of Laying Hens To Heat Stress, Amani Aldawood, Hosam Altamimi
Acute Phase Proteins, Endocrine And Productive Responses Of Laying Hens To Heat Stress, Amani Aldawood, Hosam Altamimi
Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences
This study was designed to characterize changes in the acute phase proteins (APPs), hormones parallel to performance, and egg quality traits in laying hens exposed to heat stress (HS). A total of 120 sixteen-week-old Lohmann hens was allowed an adaptation period of 5 weeks in 3 different rooms at 21 °C. The hens were then exposed to one of three climatic thermal treatments over the next 6 weeks; thermoneutrality (TN, 21 °C), constant (C-HS, 28 °C), and cyclic HS (HS, 20 h/d at 28 ± 1 °C and 4 h/d at 33 ± 1 °C). Blood samples were weekly obtained, …