Effect of Propolis on Productive and Physiological Parameters in Quail

This experiment was carried out at the Salahaddin University-Erbil. To study the effect of water supplementation with propolis on local quail performance, some physiological and immunological characteristics at 42 days old. A total of four hundred fifty (450) unsexed day old quail chicks were randomly allocated into five treatment groups. Chicks in each treatment group (90 chicks) were subdivided into three replications (30 chicks for each). The five dietary treatment groups were as follows: T1 Control, T2 (100 mg propolis/L water), T3 (200 mg propolis/L water), T4 (300 mg propolis/L water), T5 (400m g propolis/L water). Live body weight, body weight gain, feed consumption, feed conversion ratio, mortality percentage and daily egg production were recorded. At the end of the experiment, all chicks were slaughtered and production index (PI), dressing percentage and carcass cuts percentage were measured. The overall data shows the following results: Water supplementation with different levels of propolis significantly (P<0.05) increased the live body weight, carcass weight, thigh%, back% and wing% compared to control group.