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Provedor de dados: | 96
País: | Brazil
Título: | Chlorine requirement for Japanese laying quails
Autores: | Costa,Fernando Guilherme Perazzo; Figueiredo Júnior,Jalceyr Pessoa; Lima,Denise Fontana Figueiredo; Goulart,Cláudia de Castro; Silva,José Humberto Vilar da; Lima,Matheus Ramalho de; Pinheiro,Sarah Gomes; Rodrigues,Valéria Pereira.
Data: | 2012-10-01
Ano: | 2012
Palavras-chave: | Coturnix coturnix japonica; Electrolyte balance; Mineral nutrition.
Resumo: | The objective of this study was to determine the chlorine nutritional requirement of Japanese Quails during the laying phase, based on performance and egg quality parameters. A total of 240 Japanese quails were distributed according to a randomized block design, with five treatments and six replicates, with 8 birds each. The experiment lasted 84 days, divided in four cycles of 21 days each. Treatments consisted of a basal diet formulated to meet the nutritional requirements, except for chlorine, and four supplementation levels with ammonium chloride, generating the levels 0.8; 1.6; 2.4; 3.2 and 4.0 g/kg. The parameters evaluated were: feed intake (g/bird/day), egg production (egg/bird/day), egg weight (g), egg mass (g), egg mass conversion (g/g), conversion per dozen eggs (kg/dz), weight of yolk (g/100 g of egg), albumen (g/100g of egg) and shell (g/100 g of egg), specific gravity (g/cm³) and shell thickness (mm). As a result of this study, feed intake, egg weight, weights of albumen, yolk, shell and specific gravity were not affected by treatments. There was a quadratic behavior for egg production, egg mass, egg mass conversion, conversion per dozen eggs and shell thickness according to the chlorine levels in the diets, with the requirements for those parameters established at 1.54; 1.37; 1.39 and 2.78 g/kg, respectively. The recommendation is 1.39 g/kg of chlorine and 244.22 mEq/kg of electrolyte balance in diets for Japanese quails.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012001000021
Editor: | Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-35982012001000021
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia  v.41 n.10 2012
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess