Effect of Adding Different Levels of Spirulina Algae (Spirulina Platensis) To the Diet of Japanese Quail on the Productive Performance
Mahdi S. Abbass(1), Luma K. Bandr*(2) and Firas M.H Alkhilani(3)
(1). Animal production Division, Office of Planning and Follow-Up – MOA, Iraq.
(2). Department of Animal Production, College of Agricultural Engineering sciences, Baghdad University, Iraq.
(3). Office of Agricultural Research, Ministry of Agriculture, Iraq.
(*Corresponding author: lumaa.khaled@coagri.uobaghdad.edu.iq).
Received: 20/09/2022 Accepted: 10/10/2022
Abstract
This experiment was conducted at Poultry Research Station of the Animal Resources Research Department-Office Agricultural Research- Ministry of Agriculture in Iraq, during a period of 16 weeks (four periods and each period of four weeks) from 21th April to 10th August 2019. In this experiment 240 Japanese quail’s female 9 weeks old, were used in this experiment. Females were randomly assigned to five treatments with three replicates per treatment (16 females/replicate). The experimental treatments were T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 with an addition of Spirulina in an average of (0, 1, 2, 3, 4%) respectively in the diets of quail to study their effect on productive performance. The results of the experiment showed significant increase (P≤0.05) regarding egg production with the addition of T5 and all the other treatments had a significant effect on this trait except T2. In respect of egg weight, egg mass, and feed conversion ratio, T5 showed a significant effect (P≤0.05) during the fourth productive period and the total periods compared to the other treatments. There was a significant improvement (P≤0.05) in feed consumption ratio regarding T3 birds during the fourth period of production compared to T1, T2 and T4 treatments, and did not differ significantly from T5.
Key words: Spirulina algae, Egg production, Egg quality, Quail.
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Abbass, M. S., Bandr, L. K., & Alkhilani, F. M. H. (2022). Effect of adding different levels of Spirulina algae (Spirulina platensis) to the diet of Japanese quail on the productive performance. Research Journal of Science, 3(1), 41–50.