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- Title
Investigation of growth and egg traits of meat quail.
- Authors
Yu, H. C.; Chen, J. L.; Hen, W. W.; Chih, F. C.
- Abstract
Quail (Coturnix coturnix) is a good source of protein with high efficiency. In addition to smaller in size, meat quail reach market weight at 5th to 6th week age and has better feed efficiency than broiler. Quail was listed as one of poultry industry to counsel and manage in 2021 by Council of Agriculture, R.O.C. According to poultry and livestock statistics survey, there are three meat quail farms in Taiwan currently. This study recorded the growth and egg traits of three strains of meat quail as Japanese, English White and Golden with two batch. The growth records were collected from 0th to 26th week age, and the egg record were collected from 10th to 26th week age. The results showed that Golden strain was the heaviest, English White strain was the second, Japanese strain was the lightest. At 5th week age in batch two, the average weight was 253.42, 220.79 and 217.23, respectively. In batch one, Japanese strain got the highest laying rate, in batch two was English White strain, second was Japanese strain, and Golden strain was the lowest. The average laying rate was 0.80, 0.77 and 0.66. The egg weight of Japanese strain started decline after 22nd week age. Based on the results of this study, the growth and egg traits of three strains have been preliminary understanding, and the improvement of their performance would be expected in the future.
- Subjects
QUAILS; BIRD eggs; BIRD growth; BIRD breeding; PROTEIN content of meat
- Publication
Journal of the Chinese Society of Animal Science, 2021, Vol 50, p6
- ISSN
0253-9187
- Publication type
Article