Seyedipour, Kh. (2015) Effect of nettle (Urtica dioica L.) and cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) powder different levels on performance and carcass characteristics of Japanese quail. Masters thesis, University of Zabol.
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Abstract
The current study was conducted to investigate the effect of nettle (Urtica dioica L.) and cinnamon (Cinnamomum Zeylanicum) powder with different levels on performance, carcass characteristics and immune system of Japanese quail. A total of 288 seven-day-old quails chick were randomly allocated to 6 treatments with 4 replicates (12 birds per replicate) as a completely randomized design in a factorial arrangement (2×3). Different levels of nettle including 0, 1 and 2 percent and different levels of cinnamon including 0 and 0.5 percent were added in the diet. Various levels of nettle significantly affected feed intake (P<0.05) in the 21 to 28 and 28 to 35 days and whole day of study. The highest feed intake was observed in the birds fed diet with 2 percent nettle (P<0.05) and 0.5 percent of cinnamon at the 14 to 21 days of age significantly increased body weight (P<0.05). The use of nettle and cinnamon had no significant effect on Feed Conversion Ratio (P>0.05). Adding nettle to diet increased relative weight of Gizzard and Bursa (P<0.05). Adding cinnamon increased relative weight of Bursa too (P<0.05). The interaction between different levels of nettle and cinnamon on none of the parameters of measured were significant (P>0.05). Adding nettle at different levels in the diet significantly (P<0.05) improved antibody titer against SRBC. Cinnamon 0.5 percent level had no significant positive effect on immune system and performance (P>0.05). Therefore according to the results it could be confirmed that the use of levels of 1 and 2 percent nettle in the diet can improve performance and immune system of Japanese quail during the growing.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Quail, nettle, Cinnamon, performance, Immune system |
| Subjects: | S Agriculture > SF Animal culture |
| Depositing User: | admin admin1 admin2 |
| Date Deposited: | 14 May 2016 09:27 |
| Last Modified: | 14 May 2016 09:27 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uoz.ac.ir/id/eprint/593 |
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