SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE.
youssef, S., Abdel Latif, H., Abdel-Kafy, E. (2021). SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE.. EKB Journal Management System, 40(4), 867-881. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084
Sabbah farouk Farouk youssef; Hesham Ahmed Abdel Latif; El-Sayed Mahfouz Abdel-Kafy. "SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE.". EKB Journal Management System, 40, 4, 2021, 867-881. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084
youssef, S., Abdel Latif, H., Abdel-Kafy, E. (2021). 'SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE.', EKB Journal Management System, 40(4), pp. 867-881. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084
youssef, S., Abdel Latif, H., Abdel-Kafy, E. SUPPLEMENTING FRESH LEMON TO GROWING JAPANESE QUAIL DIET AS A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO ANTIBIOTIC, SYNTHETIC VITAMINS AND PREBIOTIC UNDER HOT CLIMATE.. EKB Journal Management System, 2021; 40(4): 867-881. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084

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, Page 867-881  XML PDF (573.32 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/epsj.2021.135084
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Authors
Sabbah farouk Farouk yousseforcid 1; Hesham Ahmed Abdel Latif2; El-Sayed Mahfouz Abdel-Kafyorcid 3
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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