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intestinal microbial balance (Fuller, 1989). Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients which beneficially
affect the host selectively stimulating the growth and/or activity of one or limited number of bacteria in the
digestive system and thus improve the host health (Gibson and Roberfroid, 1995). Synbiotics are defined
as a mixture of probiotics and prebiotics that beneficially affects the host by improving the survival and
implantation of live microbial dietary supplements in the gastrointestinal tract. Synbiotics have been reported
to provide different health benefits and used as growth promoters in poultry. Scientific literatures on effect of
dietary supplementation of synbiotic on production performance of broiler are available but are not available
on Japanese quail in India. Hence, the present study was conducted to find out the effect of effect of dietary
supplementation of synbiotic on production performance of meat type Japanese quail.

Materials and Methods

A total of 300 day old quail chicks were randomly divided into three treatment groups (Control T1, T2 &
T3), with four replicates of 25 each. The basal diets were formulated as per the recommended concentrations
of nutrients and supplemented with synbiotic to control T1, T2 and T3 groups @ 0, 0.05 and 0.1% inclusion
level, respectively. Each five gram of the synbiotic supplement has selective strains of probiotics, namely,
Sacchromyses cerevisiae (25x10 CFU), Lactobacillus sporogenes (20x10 CFU) Aspergillus oryzae
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(20x10 CFU) and prebiotic, Fructo oligosaccharide (250mg). Adlibitum feed and water was provided for
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the chicks throughout the experimental period. The data on body weight, feed intake and livability were
recorded biweekly from 0 day to 4 weeks of age. All the data obtained were analyzed statistically using one
way ANOVA (SPSS V 20).

Results and Discussion

The statistical analysis of the results revealed that the dietary supplementation of synbiotic at 0.05% level
exerted significantly (P < 0.05) higher mean body weight (g) from second to four weeks of age followed by
0.1% supplemented birds and control birds. Among synbiotic supplemented groups, the birds supplemented
with synbiotic at 0.05% level had significantly (P < 0.05) higher mean body weight (g) from second to four
weeks. Similarly, Elshageer et al. (2020) also found that the Japanese quail fed with 0.1% synbiotic had
higher (P < 0.05) body weight in quails at 42 days of age. However, addition of synbiotic at different levels
had no significant effect on body weight of Japanese quails at 42 days of age (Sharifi et al., 2011 and Tufan
and Bolacali 2017).

Table.1. Effect of dietary supplementation of synbiotic on production performance of meat type
Japanese quail (Mean±SE)

Control- T1 T2 T3
Parameters
(0%) (0.05%) (0.1%)
Hatch weight 8.83±0.32 8.81±0.36 8.82±0.33
NS
1 week body weight(g) 20.18 ±0.26 20.24 ±0.22 20.46 ±0.28
st
NS
2 week body weight(g) * 50.84 ±0.89 57.85 ±0.84 50.93 ±0.77
b
b
a
nd
3 week body weight(g) * 95.30 ±1.41 106.53 ±1.55 100.78 ±1.52
rd
a
b
c
4 week body weight (g) * 149.84 ±2.06 155.26 ±1.73 150.20 ±1.56
b
a
th
b
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