European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety

A feeding trial was conducted to discern the influence of dietary incorporation of Moringa oleifera leaf meal on carcass characteristics, cut-up parts, and weights of organs parameters of broiler Japanese quail. A total 288 day-old Japanese quail chicks were randomly distributed into eight treatments of 36 Japanese quail chicks per treatment with three replicates of 12 quail in each. Japanese quail of treatment T₁ (control group) were fed a basal diet (starter and finisher), whereas in treatment group T₂ basal diet was incorporated with Vitamin C @200 mg/kg, T₃ basal diet was incorporated with Vitamin E @10 IU/kg, and in diets T₄, T₅, T₆, T₇, and T₈, the basal diet was incorporated with 1.0%, 3.0%, 5.0%, 7.0% and 9.0% Moringa oleifera leaf meal, respectively. Results showed that non-significant (P≥0.05) difference were noticed in the dressing percentage without giblet, with giblet, cut-up parts viz., neck, back, wing, breast, thigh and drumstick, weights of organs in broiler Japanese quail when Japanese quail was fed diet with different levels of Moringa oleifera leaf meal. But significantly (P≤0.05) higher meat-bone ratio was seen in T₅ group while lower was seen in T₈ treatment group as compared to control. It can be concluded that 3.0 % Moringa oleifera leaf meal can be incorporated in feed for improvement of carcass characteristics of the broiler Japanese quail.