Effect of Chavir (Ferulago angulate L.) powder and vitamin E on growth performance, meat quality and some blood metabolites of Japanese quails

A total of 320 day-old Japanese quails were allocated to four treatments using a completely randomized design to investigate the effects of dietary supplementation of Chavir powder(Ch.P) and vitamin Eon performance, meat quality and some blood metabolites. Treatments included in the study were: 1) basal diet (control group), 2 and 3) the basal diet supplemented with Ch.P at the levels of 1.5 and 3 %, respectively, and 4) the basal diet supplemented with vitamin E at 200 mg/kg of diet. Each treatment replicated four times with 20 birds in each replicate. Results showed that adding Ch.P to the diets significantly decreased body weight gain and feed intake (FI) at 21 d of age (P