Effect of Beak Trimming on Growth Performance of Japanese Quail Chicks

VIMAL ANTONY M.; ANITHA P.; LEO J.; BINOJ C.; Arun R. U.

Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Effect of Beak Trimming on Growth Performance of Japanese Quail Chicks

Vimal Antony M. , Anitha P. , Leo J. , Binoj C. , Arun R. U.

Abstract :

n experiment was conducted to study the effect of beak trimming on growth performance of Japanese quail chicks from zero to six weeks of age. One thousand five hundred (1500), day-old Japanese quail chicks were allotted randomly to three treatment groups viz; T1, T2 and T3 with five replicates of hundred quails each. Chicks in T1 were the control group without beak trimming. Chicks in T2 and T3 were beak trimmed at 7th and 14th day of age respectively. Individual body weight of all birds in each replicate was recorded at day-old and at weekly intervals up to six weeks. The mean body weight of quails up to three weeks of age did not differ significantly between treatment groups, while it was higher in T3 than T2 during the later stage of growth. The returns per quail housed over feed and chick cost was higher in the beak trimmed groups.. The results of the present study suggest that beak trimming can be practiced at fourteenth day of age for re� quail chicks up to six weeks of age.