effect of artichoke (cynara scolymus l.) leaf powder and vitamin e on performance and some blood parameters of meat type japanese quail

in order to investigate the effects of artichoke leaf powder and vitamin eon performance, internal organs relative weight and some blood parameters, 240 day-old quails were assigned to four treatments including, basal diet (control), basal diet supplemented with levels of 1.5 and 3 percent of artichoke leaf powder and basal diet supplemented with 300 mg/kg diet vitamin e with four replicates and 15 birds in each in a completely randomized design. birds receiving diet supplemented with vitamin e showed greater body weight gain than other treatments (p