The Effects of Dietary Olive Cake Meal on Fattening Performance, Carcass and Slaughter Traits in Japanese Quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Turkish Journal of Agriculture: Food Science and Technology

卷:9

Sema Alaşahan¹  Cahit Özcan²  Tülay Çimrin³  Yasin Yakar⁴ 

[1] Department of Animal Breeding, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, 31034 Hatay,;

[2] Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Siirt University, 56100 Siirt,;

[3] Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, 31034 Hatay;

[4] Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Harran University, 63000 Şanlıurfa;

关键词: alternative feedstuff;    growth traits;    olive oil by-product;    edible organ weights;    waste product;   

DOI  :  10.24925/turjaf.v9i6.1030-1036.4112

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This study was aimed at investigating the effects of dietary supplementation with different levels of olive cake meal (0%, 2.5%, 5% and 7.5%) on the fattening performance and slaughter and carcass traits of quails. For this purpose, 400 one-day-old Japanese quail chicks were randomly assigned to 4 groups, each with 5 replicates. The quails were fed on either a basal diet alone (Control Group) or a basal diet supplemented with olive cake meal at rates of 2.5% (Group I), 5% (Group II) and 7.5% (Group III) for a period of 42 days. At the end of the fattening period, dietary olive cake meal was observed not to have caused any adverse effect on body weight, feed intake and feed conversion rate. Eviscerated hot carcass weight, eviscerated cold carcass weight, wing weight, breast weight, thigh weight and edible visceral organ weights were determined to have improved in the treatment groups that received dietary olive cake meal, when compared to the control group. In conclusion, dietary supplementation with olive cake meal, a waste product of the olive oil industry, at a level of 5%, was observed to produce the closest and most similar results to those of feeding on the basal diet. Thus, it is suggested that olive cake meal could be used as an alternative feedstuff for poultry. Furthermore, the use of olive cake meal as an alternative feedstuff would contribute to reducing both feed costs and environmental pollution.

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