The study was carried out in the Poultry farms/ Nineveh Research Department, by using 756 unsexing quail birds two weeks aged, distributed into nine experimental treatments with 3 replicates per treatment, each contained 28 birds, primary live weight 63.8 g, birds was fed on growth and production diets depending on growth stage. Results showed a significant improvement (P< 0.05) for soakedwater barley (SWB) treatments 10% and 20% on weight gain g/ bird (WG) and feed conversion ratio (FCR), FCR g food/g egg, egg production% for first four weeks of production, hatching% from total eggs for the first four, second and third weeks of production. Mathematic difference showed for the rest of the traits. The levels of Faba Bean (FB) FB minor 10% and 20% had a negative and significant effect (P < 0,05) on the WG and FCR at 3-5 weeks age, FCR for the first four weeks of production and eggs production %, a positive improvement (P < 0.05) for FCR and egg production% for third four weeks of production.
An experiment was conducted in the fields of the poultry unit - Livestock Division - Nineveh Research Department, to find out the effect of using low-intensity magnetic flux (110 Gaos) in two periods of incubate quail eggs, on the growth and production performance of the resulting birds, the results showed a significant increase (P ≤0.05) for the magnetic flux treatment on control treatment for hatchability% and fertility%, the percentage of dead embryos decreased significantly (P ≤0.05) for the second exposure period treatment than the control treatment, the two magnetic exposure treatments were significantly superior (P ≤ 0.05) to control treatments in the body weight at one and four weeks age (g), weight gain (g) and food conversion ratio (g/g). The magnetic exposure treatment also achieved a significant decrease (P ≤0.05) for the number of days to reach sexual maturity (or the days to obtain 5% egg production) and for food consumed / kg. The two magnetic treatments were also significantly superior in food conversion ratio (kg feed / kg egg) for the eight-week period of egg production.
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