The objective of this study was to obtain estimates of genetic and phenotypic parameters for egg mass of meat quails and also to propose an optimal age for selection of birds through the egg mass. The data used in this study came from 3,503 female meat quails (UFV1: 1.811 quails; UFV2: 1.692 quails) of the Poultry Breeding Program from Universidade Federal de Viçosa. The traits examined were egg mass in partial periods until 77, 112, 147 and 182 days, and […]

Data of egg weight, albumen height, shell thickness, body weight and egg production at 90 days of laying from three lines of laying quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica), fed diets with 2,900 kcal or 2,500 kcal metabolizable energy, were used to check the existence of the genotype-environmental interaction. The MTGSAM software program was used, which allows Bayesian inference, using the Gibbs Sampling, applied to an animal model, to estimate the co-variance components, heritability and genetic correlation between both environments. The results […]

This work was developed to evaluate the effect of different levels of crude protein (CP) and metabolizable energy (ME) on the performance of laying quails. Six hundred and seventy tywo Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) from 42 days to 168 days of age were divided in six periods of 28 days each. The birds were assigned to a completely randomized design, with the treatments in a factorial arrangement of 4 x 4 (protein x energy), with six replication of seven […]

This experiment was conducted to study the effect of the inclusion of a commercial enzyme complex (alpha-amylase, xylanase and proteases) especific for corn and soybean meal based diets, on laying hens performance. One hundred and twenty eight Hy-line White Leghorns hens with 68 weeks of age, in the 2nd cycle of production were assigned to a completely randomized block design with four replications of four birds per block, totalizing 32 birds per treatment. Two isonitrogenous diets with different levels of […]

The objective of this study was to estimate the genetic correlation between semen (semen volume, sperm motility and spermatozoa concentration) and egg production traits (partial and total egg production, and egg weight) from a White Leghorn strain. In order to obtain semen traits, 698 DD1 strain roosters developed at CNPSA/EMBRAPA were used. The semen were collected at 24, 26 and 28 wk of age, and, to obtain the egg traits, full sisters (average of two sisters per male) were used. […]

A performance trial was conducted to determinate the nutritional requirement of lysine for laying Japanese quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Two hundred and eighty eight Japanese quails with 51 old days, during four cycles of 21 days, were allotted to a completely randomized design, with six treatments and six replicates, and the experimental unit constituted by eight quails. One control diet, with appropriated levels of the crude protein and amino acids and others five diets, with increasing levels of lysine (.65, […]