Abstract

Study was carried out at the poultry farm of the animal resource Department - Collage of Agriculture - Tikrit University for the period from 14\\11\\2018 to 12\\2\\2019 and the main aim of this study was to improve importance of addition of different levels of zeolite on Japanese quail bird feed and its effect on the primary and secondary carcass parts. And in this study a 240 birds were used and these were divided into four treatments with three replicates for each treatment and each replicates contained 20 birds with percent of one male and three female. And the birds feed with 20% percentage of protein and 2800 kilo calorie of energy.The treatments were divided as following:First treatment (T1) control treatment without addition of zeoliteSecond treatment (T2) second treatment addition of 2g\\kg feed of zeolite powderThird treatment (T3) third treatment addition of 3g\\kg feed of zeolite powderFourth treatment (T4) fourth treatment addition of 4g\\kg feed of zeolite powderThe results showed that addition of zeolite have significant effect (p < 0.05) on live body weight, carcass weight and main carcass parts (chest, thigh, back, wings and neck) at the treatment with addition of 3g of zeolite powder in compare with other study treatments.

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