Effect of Dietary Levels of Toasted Mucuna Seed Meal (TMSM) on the Performance and Egg Quality Parameters of Laying Japanese Quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Abstract

A 8 week feeding trial was conducted to determine the effect of dietary inclusion of Toasted Mucuna Seed Meal (TMSM) on the performance and egg qualities of Japanese quail layers. Four (4) isonitrogenous (20% cp) diets were formulated to contain toasted mucuna seed meal at 0, 5, 10 and 15%. Each of the dietary treatments was triplicated with 10 birds per replicate (making a total of 120 birds for the experiment) in a completely randomized design. The birds were offered feed and water ad libitum. The results showed that the quail layers fed up to 15% dietary levels of TMSM had percent hen-day and hen housed egg production, average feed intake, feed intake per egg production and feed intake per gram egg production values that were not statistically different (p>0.05) from those fed the 0% TMSM (control) diet. Albumen width and shell thickness were significantly (p<0.05) lowered by the increasing levels of TMSM, while egg circumference and all yolk parameters were not affected significantly (p>0.05). Dietary inclusion of TMSM at all levels reduced feed cost which was also reflected in feed cost per egg produced and feed cost per bird produced. Therefore the use of TMSM as a feed ingredient up to 15% level in quail layer diets is profitable, feasible and desirable.

Egg laying performance and economics of production of japanese quails fed diets containing peeled and cooked sweet potato meal

“…This is in agreement withthe result of this work. Hen-housed egg production reported in this study increased from 69.02% (diet A) to 73.44% for birds on diet C but the differences were not significant which agrees with the report of Tuleun and Dashe (2010) and Kaya and Yildirim (2011) who fed laying chickens with sweet potato vines and may still be due to the adequacy of dietary protein and metabolizable energy. Water intake of birds on the test diets was significantly higher than those on the control (42.60mL/bird).…”

“…Feed cost per dozen eggs ranged from N28.89 (diet A) to 30.15 (diet D) with increasing content of sweet potato but the differences were not significant. The valuesfor feed cost per dozen eggs obtained in this study is similar to the cost of feed/egg (2.62-2.23) reported by Tuleun and Dashe (2010). The result of feed cost per dozen eggs in this study followed similar trend with feed conversion ratio.…”

“…Hen-day egg production decreased from 78.11 (diet A) to 73.09 % (diet E) but did not differ significantly between the diets. The values reported in this study are higher than those (77.02 -62.71%) reported for laying Japanese quail fed toasted mucuna seed meal (Tuleun and Dashe, 2010) and higher than 66.80-59.40% reported by Aggoor et al (2006) for laying quail fed rice bran or broken rice at two different energy levels and higher than th at ( 7 5 . 7 8 -6 8 .…”

Utilisation of Biodegraded Sweet Orange (Citrus sinensis) Fruit Peel as a Replacement for Maize in Grower Rabbit Diet

“…A number of processing techniques such as sun drying [9], toasting [10], soaking in water [11], cooking [12], roasting [13] and fermentation [14] have been reported to improve the nutritive value of many of the identified alternative feed resources with varied effects on the performance of farm animals. The objective of this study was therefore to evaluate the feed value of biodegraded sweet orange fruit peel obtained from bovine rumen content treatment, as a replacement for maize in grower rabbit feeding.…”

Evaluation of Rice Offal Meal Improved by Rumen Filtrate Fermentation on the Performance and Economics of Producing Table Rabbits

“…Challenges encountered in utilization of most unconventional feedstuffs include but not limited to high crude fibre [12] and low protein content [13] which are able to impair nutrient utilization particularly by monogastric animals. A number of processing techniques such as toasting mucuna seeds [14], soaking in water and cooking of velvet beans [15], soaking of velvet beans in potassium bicarbonate [16] and the use of fermentation [17] have been reported to improve the nutritive value of most identified alternative non-conventional feed resources.…”