Abstract:
The present study was conducted to investigate the
effect of corn substitution with
triticale in grower diets (zero, 50 and 100%) with/
without exogenous enzyme
supplementation on growth performance, digestive or
gans relative weight, jejunal
morphology and blood lipids of quail chicks. Two hu
ndred and forty one-day-old unsexed
Japanese quail chicks were randomly assigned to a c
ompletely randomized design
experiment with six treatments, four replicates/tre
atment and 10 chicks/replicate.
Substituted triticale for corn in quail grower diet
s didn’t have significant effect on finaly
weight and daily body weight gain. In the quail chi
cks that fed triticale based diet, feed
intake and feed conversion ratio significantly redu
ced compared those fed corn based
diet. Inclusion triticale in the quail grower diets
at different levels significantly decreased
the crop relative weight, blood serum concentration
of triglyceride and very low density
lipoprotein and significantly increased large intes
tine relative weight. The villus height,
crypt depth, villus surface area and villus height
to crypt deep rate in the quail chicks that
fed triticale-soy meal diet were significantly more
than those fed corn-soy meal diet.
Supplemented exogenous enzyme to the experimental d
iets didn’t have significant effect
on whole studied traits, except significantly reduc
ed duodenum relative weight. In
conclusion, triticale is a good alternative for cor
n in quail grower diet, it can completely
substitute for corn and have a decreasing effect fo
r blood triglyceride and very low
density lipoprotein.
Keywords
: Exogenous Enzyme, Growth performance, Histomophom
etry, Quail chicks,
Triticale.
