A sudden appearance of a malignant lymphoid tumor, which we characterized as reticulum cell sarcoma, was ob served in a sequestered colony of Auburn strain 571 Japanese quails on the campus of the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Tumor infiltrations were present in thymuses, spleens, livers, and, less commonly, in the caeca and bursa of Fabricius. In the advanced stages, other organs, such as ki...

this study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary nigella sativa meal (nsm) on the growth performance, blood parameters, carcass characteristics, egg yolk cholesterol and meat quality in japanese quail. for this purpose 300 one-day old japanese quail chicks in a completely randomized design was used with five treatments in four replicates )containing 15 birds each(. the experimenta...

the current study was conducted to investigate the effect of short-term divergent selection on the shape growth curve in different lines of japanese quail. the quail lines utilized in this study were two divergently selected for high (hw) and low (lw) 4-wk body weight during 7 generation and also a control line (c). the richard function parameters were used to describe growth curves of differen...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of different levels of sesame meal (sm) on performance and carcass characteristics of japanese quail. one hundred sixty day-old japanese quail chick were equally distributed into 16 cage pens and reared form 10 to 42 days of age. the treatments consisted of sm0, sm50, sm100 and sm150. the diet for sm0 treatment had no sm (control), while those ...

colibacillosis caused by avian pathogenic escherichia coli (apec) is an economic threat to the poultry industry throughout the world. some of the virulence genes may enhance the ability of e. coli isolates to grow in the tissues of broilers. the apec strains are assigned to a few distinct phylogenetic groups. the purpose of the present study was to detect the virulence genes and phylogenetic gr...

The nutrient digestibility and the metabolizable energy (AME) of Acacia mangium leaf (AM) yeast-fermented AM (YFAM) by Japanese quails were investigated. Fifty-four 4-weeks-old divided into 3 groups with six replications three quails. Each quail was randomly fed an experimental diet composed dextrose (protein-free for determining endogenous excretion) 40 % 40% YFAM. raised individually in a met...

An investigation of Vemo Herb® additive on the forage consumption rate in Japanese quail (Pharaoh breed) has been conducted. The experiment was carried out for 10 weeks with 52 female and 16 male sexually matured Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) distributed in four groups: control group (without additive), first experimental group 4 mg*kg of live weight for 10 weeks; second experime...