Abstract
THE utility of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) as an experimental animal in investigations concerned with physiological, genetic and nutritional studies has been aptly demonstrated. The present study was to determine if linoleic acid deficiency had the same effects on reproductive performance of the Japanese quail as those observed in the chicken.MATERIAL AND METHODSEight-week-old female quail, which had been fed a 24% protein quail starter diet for 4 weeks and a 20% protein breeder diet for 4 weeks preceding the experimental period, were used in these studies. Twenty birds each were randomly assigned to two experimental treatments for a period of 12 weeks and housed, 1 bird per cage, in a quail breeder battery with wire mesh floors. One treatment received the basal linoleic acid deficient laying diet described by Calvert (1967), and the other received the same diet supplemented with safflower oil to furnish 3.0% linoleic…
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