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Provedor de dados: 	89	
País: 	Brazil	
Título: 	Economic traits and performance of Italian quails reared at different cage stocking densities	
Autores: 	Faitarone,ABG; Pavan,AC; Mori,C; Batista,LS; Oliveira,RP; Garcia,EA; Pizzolante,CC; Mendes,AA; Sherer,MR.	
Data: 	2005-03-01	
Ano: 	2005	
Palavras-chave: 	Cage stocking density; Economic traits; Italian quail; Performance.	
Resumo: 	This study assessed the effect of different cage stocking densities on the performance of Italian quails in the laying period. Two hundred and sixty four quails with 30 weeks of age and 280g mean body weight were used. Birds were randomly assigned to 96 x 33 x 16 cm cages and distributed in a randomized block design with 4 treatments (12, 15, 18 and 21 quails per cage or 264, 211, 176 and 151 cm² per quail, respectively) and 4 replicates. Birds were given feed and water ad libitum and submitted to the same experimental conditions. The experimental diet was formulated based on NRC (1994) recommendations. There were no significant differences among treatments for feed conversion per egg mass (kg:kg), percentage of broken eggs and mortality. There was a linear reduction (p&lt;0.05) in egg weight, feed consumption, percentage of production, egg mass and feed conversion per dozen with the increase in stocking density. The gain per house per day was better at the cage density of 151 cm² per bird. However, the density of 211 cm² per bird provided the best gain per bird per day, because this stocking density had better productive indexes when compared with the other treatments.	
Tipo: 	Info:eu-repo/semantics/article	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-635X2005000100003	
Editor: 	Fundação APINCO de Ciência e Tecnologia Avícolas	
Relação: 	10.1590/S1516-635X2005000100003	
Formato: 	text/html	
Fonte: 	Brazilian Journal of Poultry Science  v.7 n.1 2005	
Fonte: 	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess