Open AccessExterior quality of Japanese quails egg from brown and black japanese quail crosses
Author(s) -
Ari Kusuma Wati,
Ratih Dewanti,
P. Fadilla,
Muhammad Rifki,
Muhammad Cahyadi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.179
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/411/1/012031
Subject(s) - quail , eggshell , biology , zoology , completely randomized design , ecology
This research was conducted to determine the exterior quality of brown and black Japanese quail crosses. Two hundred Japanese quails were divided into four types of lines as treatments: male brown VBC1 and female black VBC2 (BL1), male brown VBC2 and female black VBC1 (BL2), male black VBC1 and female brown VBC2 (LB1) and male black VBC2 and female brown VBC1 (LB2). Each treatment consists of 50 quails as replication. Exterior quality testing used 10 weeks old quail eggs. This study used a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). The data observed in this study was the egg weight, egg length, egg width, egg index, eggshell weight, and eggshell thickness. Besides, the data were analyzed using analysis of variance, and pairwise differences among quail lines were conducted using Duncan's multiple range test (DMRT). The results showed the egg weight and egg width were significantly different among lines (P 0.05) on the egg length, eggshell weight, eggshell thickness, and egg index. It can be concluded that the best exterior quality of eggs was produced from male black quail VBC1 and female brown VBC2 in terms of egg weight.