Volume 6
Issue 2
Animal Husbandry
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume6/issue2/animal/abs-13.html
MODIFICATION OF QUAIL MEAT QUALITY WITH OLIGOSACCHARIDE FEED SUPPLEMENTATION
Józefa Gardzielewska, Zofia Tarasewicz, Danuta Szczerbińska, Małgorzata Jakubowska, Tadeusz Karamucki, Wanda Natalczyk-Szymkowska
ABSTRACT
The studies were carried out on 40 female Pharaoh quails. In the fifth week of age, the quails were weighed and randomly assigned to 5 feeding groups. In the group I, control, the females were fed on standard feed formed for adult quail feeding. The experimental groups II and III received the standard mixture with oligosaccharides added, which had been extracted from pea seed, in the quantities and duration, respectively: 0.4 g · kg-1 of mixture for 3 weeks, 0.4 g · kg-1 for the entire period of the experiment, i.e. 4 months. In the groups IV and V, the addition of oligosaccharides was 3 g per kg of feed, with the group IV fed this way for 3 weeks and the group V for 4 months.
Key words: quail, meat, quality, oligosaccharides.