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This study was conducted to investigate the effects of Shiitake mushroom (Lentinus edodes) supplementation into quail diets on live weight, live weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio, blood serum biochemical parameters (total cholesterol, total protein, triglyceride, glucose) and intestine bacteria populations. A total of 220 Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix Japonica) were used in present experiments. Quail were separated into 4 groups (one control and three treatment groups). Control group was fed with a basic ration and treatments groups were fed with 0.5, 1 and 2% shiitake mushroom-supplemented diets. Shiitake mushroom supplementations significantly influenced live weights (P0.05). A linear decrease was seen in live weights with increasing Shiitake mushroom supplementation ratios into quail diets. Similarly, live weight gains linearly decreased with increasing doses of Shiitake mushroom. Therefore, feed conversion ratios were negatively influenced by Shiitake mushroom supplementation and feed consumptions of quail were not affected. Present findings revealed that increasing Shiitake mushroom supplementation ratios into quail diets worsened growth performance. |
