Dietary Dill Oil Enhanced Growth Performance, Antioxidative Capacity and Economical Efficiency of Japanese Quails | ||||
Journal of Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | ||||
Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2023, Page 10-16 PDF (265.36 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original research paper | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/jsaes.2023.216973.1040 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Talaat Khedr El-Rayes 1; Saad Zaghloul Eldamrawy2; Hager Saied Morad3 | ||||
1Animal production department, faculty of agriculture, Tanta University, Egypt. | ||||
2Animal production department, faculty of agriculture, Tanta university, Egypt | ||||
3Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University 31527, Tanta, Egypt | ||||
Abstract | ||||
This study aimed to assess the impacts of dill oil on growth performance, oxidative status, and economic efficiency of Japanese quails. A total of 300 one-week-old unsexed Japanese quails were randomly distributed into 4 equal groups (75 birds into 5 replicates/group). The 1st group (control) was fed a diet without any dill oil, while dill oil was added at levels of 250, 500, and 750 m per ton of feed, respectively at the 2nd, 3ed and 4th groups. At the age of 3 and 5 wks, the best values of productive performance represented in body weight, weight gain, feed consumption and feed conversion ratio were achieved in groups fed diet supplemented with 500 and 750 m dill oil/ton of diet. A significant (P≤0.01) improvement was achieved in antioxidant status; especially in the levels of both SOD and GSH enzymes while, decreasing the amount of MDA in blood plasma. Japanese quail fed diet supplemented with 750 g/ton had the highest relative economic efficiency followed by those fed diet supplemented with 500 g/ton by 23.51and 21.43% respectively, compared to the control group. It could be recommended that, supplemented diet with dill oil up to 750g/ton improved the productive performance traits, antioxidative capacty and economic efficiency of Japanese quails. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Dill oil; Japanese quail; antioxidant; Productive performance; Economic efficiency | ||||
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