DIETARY INCLUSION OF MORINGA OLEIFERA LEAF MEAL IMPROVES EGG FERTILITY AND HATCHABILITY IN JAPANESE QUAILS (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

A. YADAV¹*, A.K. SANTRA², O.P. DINANI³, N. SINGH⁴, R. PATHAK⁵, K. PARVEEN⁶, A. DUBEY⁷, V. KUMAR^8
1Livestock Production Management Department, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
²Livestock Production Management Department, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
³Department of Instructional Livestock Farm Complex, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
⁴Livestock Production Management Department, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
⁵Department of Instructional Livestock Farm Complex, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
⁶Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
⁷Livestock Production Management Department, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
⁸Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
* Corresponding Author : aayush.aayush091@gmail.com

Received : 03-07-2022     Accepted : 27-07-2022     Published : 30-07-2022
Volume : 14     Issue : 7       Pages : 11469 - 11471
Int J Agr Sci 14.7 (2022):11469-11471

Keywords : Egg, Fertility, Hatchability, Japanese quail, Layer, Moringa oleifera leaf meal
Academic Editor : Dr Payal Jain, Manoj Kumar Sharma
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Livestock Production Management Department; Department of Animal Genetics and Breeding; Department of Instructional Livestock Farm Complex; College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Dau Shri Vasudev Chandrakar Kamdhenu Vishwavidyalaya, Durg, 491001, India
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The study was conducted on 360 adult Japanese quails (270 layers and 90 males) for a period of 16 weeks. The study comprised of five treatments based on five variable inclusions of Moringa oleifera (M. oleifera) leaf meal and had an equal number of birds. The treatments T0 (control), T0.5, T1, T1.5, and T2 corresponded to 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, and 2% inclusion levels of M. oleifera leaf meal. The study disclosed percentage egg fertility, hatchability on total eggs set basis, and hatchability on fertile eggs set basis in the range of 81.71-88.89, 71.39-80.05, and 87.02-90.14, respectively in birds fed M. oleifera leaf meal based diets than the control diet (81.13, 70.14 and 86.50, respectively). The best level of inclusion was 1% in the study. The study thus affirms that the 1% level of inclusion of M. oleifera leaf meal can be recommended in the diets of layers for enhanced egg fertility and hatchability

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