| Abstrakt: |
The present study was aimed at assessing the impacts of dietary cinnamon or clove powders and oils on productive performance, morphology, and intestine bacterial population of quails. For this purpose, 420 quail chicks aged one day were randomly assigned into 7 treatments. Each treatment consisted of 15 females and 5 males and included 3 replicates. The chicks were reared for a period of 12 weeks. According to the results, compared to the powder treatments, the oil treatments led to significantly higher improvement in the quails' body weight, sexual maturity age, egg production (H.D%), feed intake, feed conversion ratio (FCR) (g feed / g egg), FCR (g feed /egg) and egg weight (g), bacterial population of Lactobacillus, and ileum morphology (villus, crypt depth, goblet cell numbers) of small intestine. Moreover, supplementations of cinnamon and clove oils resulted in a decrease in E. coli, enterococcus, and fungi. Cinnamon and clove essential oils were better than their powders in terms of improving the studied characteristics of the quails. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
