Asian Journal of Bio Science

Sasmita Panda ¹, Laxman Kumar Babu ¹, Arun Kumar Panda ², Kuldeep Kumar Panigrahy ³, Shailesh Kumar Gupta ³, Promila Marndi ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN
2 ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN
3 Division of Livestock Production and Management, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (Haryana), IN
4 Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN

Abstract

The research work was carried out for a total period of 4 weeks to study the effect of dietary supplementation of fermented fish silage on the meat quality of broiler Japanese quails. 192, seven-day old broiler Japanese quail chicks of either sex were randomly distributed into four dietary treatment groups with four replicates in each group with 12 chicks in each pen. The dietary treatments were T₁ control diet, T₂ diet containing 5 per cent fermented fish silage, T₃ diet containing 10 per cent fermented fish silage and T₄ diet containing 15 per cent fermented fish silage. The chemical composition like moisture, crude protein (CP) and ether extract (EE) content of the broiler quail meat taken from the breast region of birds did not vary significantly among the dietary treatments; however, there was a significant difference (P<0.05) in the total ash content. The total ash content in the meat samples of the birds fed diet containing 15 per cent fermented fish silage (FFS) was significantly higher (1.94±0.06%) compared to all other dietary treatments. The inclusion of FFS had no adverse effect on meat composition (CP and EE). Further, FFS inclusion in the diet had a beneficial effect on meat ash content.

Keywords

Fermented Fish Silage (FFS), Meat Quality, Japanese Quail.

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Sasmita Panda ¹, Laxman Kumar Babu ¹, Arun Kumar Panda ², Kuldeep Kumar Panigrahy ³, Promila Marndi ⁴, Shailesh Kumar Gupta ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Livestock Production and Management, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN
2 ICAR-Central Institute for Women in Agriculture, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN
3 Division of Livestock Production and Management, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal (Haryana), IN
4 Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, College of Agriculture, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar (Odisha), IN

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the carcass characteristics of male and female Japanese quails at 6 weeks of age. A total of 100 one-day old Japanese quail chicks were procured and placed in two separate pens each containing 50 chicks. Sex determination was carried out in day-old chicks by cloacal method. All the birds were provided with a balanced diet containing 2900 kcal of ME/kg of ration and 24 per cent CP with ad lib provision of water during the entire experimental period. At the end of the experiment, five birds from each group were sacrificed by cervical dislocation and different parameters like eviscerated yield, neck yield, wing yield, back yield, breast yield, giblet yield, thigh yield and drumstick yield were studied. A significantly higher (P<0.05) percentage of eviscerated yield, giblet yield and breast yield was observed in case of the female Japanese quails as compared to males; however, no significant difference was noticed in terms of neck yield, wings yield, back yield, thigh yield and drumsticks yield among both male and female Japanese quails.

Keywords

Male, Female Japanese Quail, Carcass Characters.

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