Substituting dehulled full-fat sunflower seed-meal for soybean-meal in Japanese quail diets
2000
Fouzder, S.K. | Khan, N.R.M.Z. | Howlider, M.A.R. | Ali, M.L. (Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh (Bangladesh).
Dehulled full-fat sunflower seed-meal (FSSM) was evaluated as a replacement for soybean-meal (SBM) in Japanese quail rations on an isoenergetic and isonitrogenous basis. The study was conducted with 135 unsexed quail chicks of 1 week-old and the effect of replacing 25, 50, 75 or 100% SBM with dehulled FSSM on the performance was studied in a 8-week trial. The results showed that 100% replacement of SBM with FSSM did not affect (P0.05) body weight, feed intake, feed conversion efficiency and survivability. Level of dietary SBM substitution exerted no effect on sexual maturity and egg weight. Dressing parameters, as measured by dressing percentage and blood, feather, heart, liver, gizzard, abdominal fat, head and shank weights, were also not affected (P0.05) by the diets. But, there were significant differences between sexes for live weight, dressing percentage and liver, gizzard, abdominal fat and head weights of quails. The results indicated that complete replacement of SBM with dehulled FSSM may not be harmful to supoprt normal productivity.
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