Effect of Adding Different Levels of Lycopene to the Diet In physiologic Performance of Female Quail | ||
| iraqi poultry sciences journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 2, December 2016, Pages 53-64 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was conducted in the Poultry Research Station – department of Animal Resources Research – office of Agricultural Research – Ministry of Agricultural Abu Ghraib, during the period from 9/8/2015 to 10/10/2015. The aim of this study was investigate the effect of adding different level of lycopene to the diet on physiologic performance of female quail. Four hundred eighty quail birds were used in this study at age 12 week, Quail birds distributed randomly to 4 treatments with 3 replicates (40 quail birds per replicate). Quail birds were fed one diet during the experiment. The diet contains 20 % crude protein and 2903 Kcal metabolic energy / kg. Lycopene was added to the birds diet from the beginning untill the end of Experimental treatments were as follow T1 (Control diet) without supplement T2, T3 and T4 Supplementing 100, 200, 300 (mg lycopene /kg diet) respectively. Results revealed that dietary supplementation with different levels of lycopene resulted in .Adding different levels of lycopene to the diet recorded significant enhancement (P≤0.05) in the biochemical traits of female quail serum, especially for T4 which recorded an increasing in protein level and high density lipoprotein (HDL), while the glucose levels still within normal range. The results also recorded significant reduction (P≤0.05) for cholesterol, triglycerides (TG), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and malondialdehyde (MDA) for lycopene treatments. We conclude from this study the possibility of adding lycopene to feed level of 200 mg/ kg feed to get a positive improvement in the biochemical characteristics of serum. | ||
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