Effect of Supplementation of Organic Selenium and Vitamin E in Commercial Diets on Quails Reproduction

Abstract

Quail can be used as potential commodity to meet the needs of protein, therefore is required to increase quail reproduction. This study was aimed to get an optimum level of supplementation of organic selenium (Se) and vitamin E in two commercial diets in obtaining accelerate in age of quail first laying, improving egg production, fertility and hatchability. The treatments were supplementation of combination organic selenium (S1= 0.5 ppm and S2= 1 ppm) and vitamin E (E1= 50 ppm and E2 = 100 ppm) in different commercial diets (P and G). four hundred and twenty female and mail quails (ratio 1: 1) aged 3 weeks old were divided into 10 treatment groups with 3 replicates. Each replicate consisted of 14 quails. Two groups as control consisted of two kinds of commercial diets (P and G) without supplementation of organic selenium and vitamin E. The eight remaining groups were the groups given the combination of organic selenium and vitamin E at different level in P and G diets. The design of the experimental was completely Randomize Factorial Design. The result of this study indicated that the level of combination 0.5 ppm selenium and 100 ppm vitamin E in the two commercial diets significantly (p<0.05) improved the egg production as compare to the control groups. The supplementation of combination 1 ppm Se and 100 ppm vitamin E in two commercial diets significantly (p<0.05) improved fertility, hatchability and accelerate of age of quail first laying. From this study we can concluded that supplementation combination organic selenium and vitamin E improved quail reproduction. It showed by higher egg production, increased in fertility and hatchability and also acceleration in age of quail first laying.