NM 24. Use of sweet potato meal (Ipomea batas (L) Lam) as energy source in the layin diet of japanese quail

• Vasco de Basilio ^[1] ; F. Real ^[1] ; Maritza Romero ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Central de Venezuela

     Universidad Central de Venezuela

     Venezuela

     
• Localización: Archivos Latinoamericanos de Producción Animal, ISSN 1022-1301, ISSN-e 1022-1301, Vol. 5, Nº. 3, 1997 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Proceedings XV ALPA meeting 1)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • With the purpose of evaluating the effect of substituting Zea mays meal (MZM) for root sweet potato meal (MRSP) in the laying diet of japanese quail, a complete remdomized design was used to evaluate 5 treatment where substitution level were 0, 25, 50, 75, 100%Each treatment had 24 japanese quail, 9-week old. Variables evaluated were feed consumption (FC), egg weight (WE), feed utilization efficiency (EFU), internal egg quality (IQ Haugh units), during 5 periods of 15 days of egg production (EP). No significant differences (P