Received:September 28, 2020;   Published: October 05, 2020

DOI: 10.32474/CIACR.2020.09.000303

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Abstract

This experiment was conducted to determine the effect of selenium, methionine and different percentages of oil on the hatchability of local quail. A total of 126 nine-months-old quail breeders from local quail were assigned to 7 treatments with 3 replicates of 6 birds each (1 male: 5 females). No selenium was added to the control diet, while 0.3mg/kg sodium selenite was added to groups of (2-3-4-5), and increased the proportion of (methionine-vitamin E-fat) in the rate of (30-55-40)% in groups (3-4-5) respectively. Yeast containing organic selenium was added to the 6th and 7th group, and the fat was increased 40% in the seventh group’s diet. The results showed that organic selenium has a role in improving hatchability significantly (p≤0.05). Raising the proportion of vitamin E or oil with a large amount in the presence of organic selenium in the diet had a negative effect on hatchability but raising the proportion of methionine in the diet had a positive effect on hatchability.

Keywords: Quail, Breeder; Organic selenium; Vitamine E; Methionine; Hatchability

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