INFLUENCE OF ADDITION TURMERIC POWDER PLANT (Curcuma Longa) TO THE RATION IN PRODUCTIVE PERFORMANCE AND SOME EGGS QUALITATIVE TRAITS OF JAPANESE QUAIL

Abstract

This experiment was conducted in poultry field of Department of Animal Production in College of Agriculture - Diyala University during the period from 12/27/2015 to 21/02/2016 by using 120 of the Japanese quail females aged 20 weeks, randomly distributed evenly over the four treatments each of which contained 30 birds and by three replicates per treatment (10 females/replicate). The birds was feed in duration of the experiment amounting to eight weeks on one of diets and treatments were as follows: T1 (diet free from added), T2 (diet add a 0.3% powder plant turmeric) T3 (diet add a 0.6% powder plant turmeric) T4 (diet add 0.9% powder plant turmeric) for a period lasted from the age of 2027 weeks (8 weeks), and studied the qualities of productivity and some of qualities of eggs. The results showed a significant decrease (P <0.05) in daily feed intake of the birds at treatments T3 and T4 compared to T1 during the first period of the experiment, but during the second period of the experiment has significantly (P<0.05) at T3 in egg production, egg mass and producing cumulative eggs on two treatments T1 and T4, as happened significantly (P <0.05) in feed conversion factor with all the added treatments compared to T1 and significantly decrease (P<0.05) in daily feed consumption with all the added treatments compared to T1. At the end of experiment which reached 8 weeks has significantly (P <0.05) in egg production, egg mass at treatments T2, T3 on the rest of the treatments, as happened significantly (P <0.05) in feed conversion factor with all the added treatments compared to T1and significantly decrease (P<0.05) in daily feed consumption for treatments T3 and T4 compared to T1. It has got excelled significantly (P<0.05) in the shell weight, percentage of shell weight to egg weight in treatment T4 and significant decrease (P<0.05) in character of the high albumen of the treatment T4. We conclude from this study that the addition of turmeric powder to the diets of quail at the age of 20-27 weeks has led to improvement in productivity and some qualitative traits of quail eggs.