The Effect Of Adding Different Levels Of Alcoholic Extract Of Carrot Juice Waste To Drinking Water On The Productive Performance Of Female Quails

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Poultry Research Station of the Agricultural Research Department of the Ministry of Agriculture in Abu Ghraib from 28/1/2024 to 28/3/2024. The study aimed to investigate the effect of adding different levels of alcoholic extract of carrot juice waste to drinking water on the productive performance of 45-day-old female quail. The study was divided into two periods (4 weeks per period) and was conducted at 45 days of age. Two hundred forty female quail were randomly distributed into four treatments (60 chicks per treatment) with three replicates (20 chicks per replicate). The females were fed a production diet containing 20% ​​crude protein and metabolizable energy (ME) of 2948 kcal/kg feed, respectively. The alcoholic extract of carrot juice waste was added at levels of 0, 100, 300, and 500 mg/liter of drinking water to the four treatments, respectively. The addition treatments (T2, T3, and T4) showed highly significant (P<0.01) superiority in egg production (HD%), egg mass, and cumulative egg production, as well as a decrease in feed consumption and an improvement in the feed conversion ratio compared to the control treatment (1). This study concludes that adding the alcoholic extract of carrot juice waste to drinking water improved the productive performance of female quail.