Magnesium in the water of Japanese quails kept under comfort zone and under thermal stress

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Valéria Pereira
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Furtado, Dermeval Araújo, Ribeiro, Neila Lidiany, Rodrigues, Ladyanne Raia, Abreu, Claudia Goulart, Sousa, Janete Gouveia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/44081
• topic: Ambience; Climate chamber; Quail farming; Coturnix coturnix japonica.; Ambiente; Câmara climática; Criação de codornas; Coturnix coturnix japonica.

The objective was to evaluate the increasing levels of magnesium in the water supplied to laying quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica), kept in climatic chambers under thermoneutral temperature and thermal stress, on their performance and morphometry of their organs. The birds were distributed in a com-pletely randomized design, 2x4 factorial arrangement, 2 temperatures (24 and 32 ºC) and 4 levels of magnesium in the water (50, 150, 250 and 350 mg L-1), with six replicates and eight birds per experi-mental unit. The data were subjected to analysis of variance and the means compared by the Tukey test at 5% probability level. The magnesium levels in the water did not affect (P > 0.05) the production performance and morphometry of the organs, with less water consumption at the magnesium level of 150 mg L-1, and birds kept at 32 °C had a reduction in feed consumption and feed conversion, but without affecting organ morphometry. Japanese quails in the production phase can consume water with magnesium levels up to 350 mg L-1 without having their production performance and morphome-try of organs affected and raised in an environment with temperatures of up to 32 °C.