SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE. | ||
| Egyptian Poultry Science Journal | ||
| Article 10, Volume 40, Issue 4, December 2020, Pages 867-881 PDF (573.32 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Sabbah farouk Farouk youssef1; Hesham Ahmed Abdel Latif2; El-Sayed Mahfouz Abdel-Kafy3 | ||
| 1poultry breeding department - animal production research institute- agriculture research center | ||
| 2Agricultural research center- Animal production institute - Fayoum Poultry Research Station | ||
| 3Animal Production Research Institute Agricultural Research Center | ||
| Abstract | ||
| this experiment was carried out to evaluate ability of inserting fresh lemon as a safe natural source in quail diet instead of antibiotic, synthetic vitamins and prebiotic under hot climate condition.A total 280 unsexed one- day- old Japanese quail were divided randomly into 7 groups. Each group consists of 4 replicates hold l0 chicks per each. The 1st treatment fed control basal diet from 1 day to 6wks of age. Treatment groups from 2 to 7 fed control diet supplemented with 0.5gm oxytetracycline (20%) /kg diet, 20 g entire grinded fresh lemon /kg diet, 200mg vitamin C/kg diet, 20mgs vitamin E/kg diet, 1 g pectin /kg diet and 200mg vitamin C + 20mg vitamin E + 1g pectin/kg diet respectively. Growth performance, carcass characteristics, plasma proteins, liver enzymes, total antioxidant capacity and jejunumlactobacillus bacteria count weremeasured. The following results were obtained: 1- Significant improvement in body weight and body weight gain were obtained via supplementing fresh lemon to quail diet compared with control diet but with no difference between other treatments. 2- Plasma globulins and albumin/globulin ratio were significantly improved by fresh lemon supplementation compared with antibiotics. 3- Significantdecrease in alanine aminotransferaseand total antioxidant capacity significantly increased when fresh lemon supplemented to quail diet compared with other treatments. 4- Jejunum lactobacillus bacteria count increased significantly by supplementing basal diet with fresh lemon compared with other treatments. So,supplementing fresh lemon to growing Japanese quail diet is a good naturalsource and able to be usedas safe alternative to antibiotics, synthetic vitamins and prebiotics. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| growing quail; fresh lemon; antibiotics; synthetic vitamins | ||
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