Evaluation of replacement of maize in the ration of meat quail with agro-industrial by product (broken rice)
Utilization of broken rice in quail feed
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Malik Amreena Sehar
Division of Animal Nutrition, F.V.Sc. & A.H., SKUAST-Jammu, Jammu, J & K, India
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Ramesh Kumar Sharma
Division of Animal Nutrition, F.V.Sc. & A.H., SKUAST-Jammu, Jammu, J & K, India
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Nazam Khan
Livestock Farm Complex, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-J), Jammu and Kashmir, India.
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Anand Kumar Pathak
Division of Animal Nutrition, F.V.Sc. & A.H., SKUAST-Jammu, Jammu, J & K, India
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Ankur Rastogi
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Vijay Kumar Sharma
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Keywords:
Meat quail, broken rice, MaizeAbstract
Present study was conducted to evaluate the nutritional attributes of broken rice and to scrutinize the impact of its feeding on intake, body weight, utilization of nutrients, performance, blood biochemical parameters and carcass traits in quails. Day-old commercial meat quails (Japanese quail) (n=300) were randomly allotted to five treatment groups namely C (containing no broken rice), T1 (containing 5% broken rice as maize replacement), T2 (containing 10% broken rice as maize replacement), T3 (containing 15% broken rice as maize replacement) and T4 (containing 20% broken rice as maize replacement). The diets were isonitrogenous and isocaloric formulated to satisfy the nutrient requirements of experimental birds as per ICAR (2013). The weekly FCR and PER did not show any significant difference for the first five weeks but during the sixth week,T4 differed significantly from T0,T1 and T2. The PER of T3 (1.01±0.02) was found to be non-significantly higher than T4. The blood biochemical parameters viz. plasma glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin, albumin-globulin ratio, cholesterol, triglycerides, aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) were similar in all the dietary treatments. Though, the cost per kg of feed was lower for treatment groups, the cost-benefit ratio was comparable for all five groups. It may be recommended that maize can be replaced up to 15 % level with broken rice in the ration of meat quails with no adverse effects on body weight, feed intake, FCR, PER, utilization of nutrients, blood biochemical parameters, carcass characteristics, intestinal micrometric, sensory attributes and overall economics.
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