| Journal: | Revista brasileira de ciencia avicola |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000279311 |
| ISSN: | 1516-635X |
| Authors: | Faitarone, Ana Beatriz Garcia1 Pavan, Ana Claudia Mori, C Batista, L.S Oliveira, R.P Garcia, Edivaldo Antonio Mendes, Ariel Antonio Sherer, M.R Pizzolante, Carla Cachoni2 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho", Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, Botucatu, Sao Paulo. Brasil 2Agencia Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegocios, Campinas, Sao Paulo. Brasil |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Season: | Ene-Mar |
| Volumen: | 7 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Pages: | 19-22 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Document type: | Nota breve o noticia |
| Approach: | Experimental |
| English abstract | 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<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 |
| Disciplines: | Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia |
| Keyword: | Aves de corral, Zootecnia, Codornices, Densidad de población, Rendimiento, Huevos |
| Keyword: | Veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, Animal husbandry, Poultry, Quails, Population density, Yield, Eggs |
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