Effect of some medicinal plants as feed additive on total coliform count of ileum in Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Abstract

The study was performed to evaluate effects of turmeric powder, black pepper, cumin and coriander seeds on total coliform counts of ileum in quails. A total of 1820 one-day old unsexed quails were randomly allocated in 13 treatments with four replicates. The quails were fed a corn – soybean meal based diet containing different concentration of the medicinal plants (0, 0.05, 1 and 1.5%) supplemented to ration. At 42 days of age, eight birds from each treatments were killed and ileum part of small intestine sent to laboratory. Results showed that supplementation of basal diet with turmeric powder (1.5%) cumin (1.5%) and coriander seeds (1 and 1.5%) reduced bacteria counts, but black pepper in 0.5% level increased coliform counts in ileum of Japanese quails, significantly (P<0.01).