Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of broiler quail’s initial body weight which is fastened at post-hatch to growth and attainment the last body weight. One hundred thirty-five quails aged 12 post-hatch had kept in a cage plot which had prepared based on a completely randomized design with 3x3 factorial pattern and three replications which each replication consisted of 5 quails. The first factor is body weight post-hatch (B) consist of B1 = 5.1 – 6.0 g (light), B2 = 6.1 – 7.0 g (medium) and B3 = 7.1 – 8.0 g (heavy), the second factor is the duration of fasting post-hatch (P) consist of P1 = 24 hours, P2 = 36 hours and P3 = 48 hours. The observed parameters to fasting were feed consumption, body weight, and feed conversion. The result of this study is the quail with light early body weight (5.1-6 g) post hatch showed that the lightest last body weight is related to the value of feed conversion. Accession good performance of quail can be reached by access feed approximately 24 hours.
Highlights
Females quail are commonly grown to produce an egg, while male quail is not used as a male that can be used as a meat source
Several factors related to eggs, and quail chicks’ condition post-hatch can influence the optimal growth rate and reach optimal performance
Characteristic of eggs, especially egg CJAH/Vol.3/No.2/35-39/December 2018 weight (Alkan et al, 2008), handling of newly hatched quail chicks such as the expenditure time of chicks from the hatching rack (Farooq, Mian, Murad, Durrani, Asghar, & Muqarrab, 2001), selection and vaccination activities, and transportation conditions until the enlargement (Willemsen, Debonne, Swennen, Everaert, Careghi, Han, Bruggeman, Tona, & Decuypere, 2010) is an early growing condition in poultry that determines the attainment of last performance
Summary
Females quail are commonly grown to produce an egg, while male quail is not used as a male that can be used as a meat source. Several factors related to eggs, and quail chicks’ condition post-hatch can influence the optimal growth rate and reach optimal performance. There is no information about the magnitude of weight loss that occurs in quail chicks with different early weight when fasting post hatch and its effect on the last performance of the broiler quail.
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