Quail Egg Yield and Quality of the Coturnix Coturnix Response to the Addition Level of Agave Inulin to the Drinking Water

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Table 1. Ingredients and nutrients composition of diet.

	Ingredients, g/kg as fed basis
Sorghum	474.50
Soybean meal	278.81
Rice polishing	90.03
Calcium carbonate	65.05
Corn gluten, 60%	50.00
Soy oil	16.00
Orthophosphate	14.00
Choline chloride, 70%	2.54
Ground salt	2.50
Sodium bicarbonate	2.00
D-L Methionine	1.32
L-Lysine	0.91
Vitamin-mineral premix	2.50^°
Chemical composition^#
Dry matter, %	90.10
Crude protein, %	20.63
Crude fat, %	5.17
Crude ash, %	11.56
Crude fibre, %	3.04
Methionine, %	0.41
Lysine, %	1.06
Methionine + cystine, %	0.71
Metabolizable energy, kcal/kg	2800

^°Provided per kg of diet: vitamin A, 100,000 U; vitamin D₃ (cholecalciferol), 200,000 U; vitamin E (tocopherol acetate), 500 mg; vitamin K (menadione complex), 4.2 mg; riboflavin, 6.25 mg; niacin, 30 mg; choline (choline chloride), 2500 mg; vitamin B₁₂ (cyanocobalamin), 90 mg; manganese (MnSO₄·H₂O), 84 mg; zinc (ZnO), 81 mg; iron (FeSO₄·H₂O), 144 mg; copper (CuSO₄·5H₂O), 9 mg; iodine (KI), 1.25 mg; selenium (Na₂SeO₃), 0.150 mg; folic acid, 0.53 mg.

^#Chemical composition of the diet was calculated based on National Research Council (1994) feed composition tables.

Table 2. Effects of the addition of agave inulin on the egg production and quality (mean±SEM).

	Inulin addition, %
	0	2	4	6
Intake, g/day	28.62±0.70	28.11±0.71	26.75±0.69	24.97±0.71
Laying rate, %	67.51±2.37^a	77.28±2.35^b	77.10±2.30^b	78.48±2.30^b
Egg mass, g/day	8.73±0.30^a	9.36±0.31^b	9.71±0.29^b	8.92±0.29^a
Feed conversion ratio^°	3.28±0.16	3.28±0.15	3.49±0.16	3.12±0.15
Egg weight, g	13.02±0.12	11.90±0.13	13.29±0.12	12.14±0.12
Yolk
Weight, g	4.14±0.15	4.16±0.26	4.83±0.25	3.82±0.23
Egg, %	31.68±1.14	34.92±1.90	36.69±1.91	31.49±1.74
Eggshell, %
Egg	14.27±0.46	15.51±0.77	13.31±0.76	13.53±0.70
Ash content	48.68±1.42^ab	42.96±2.38^a	51.53±2.36^b	52.47±2.17^b
Calcium	18.16±1.06^ab	17.01±1.64^b	23.52±1.84^a	19.95±1.50^ab
Albumen
Weight, g	7.03±0.23	5.90±0.38	6.64±0.37	6.67±0.35
Egg, %	54.05±1.19	49.57±2.00	50.00±2.10	54.98±1.82

^°Feed conversion ratio: intake/egg mass.

^a,bMeans in the same row with different letters are different significantly at P<0.05.

National Research Council, 1994. Nutrient requirements of poultry. 9 th rev. ed., National Academy Press, Washington, DC, USA.

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