تأثير إضافة مستويات مختلفة من زيت الكتان إلى العليقة في بعض الصفات النوعية للبيضة لطائر النعام في العراق

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This study was conducted in Babylon protected breeding and of Ostriches, hawks and deer for the purpose of the statement of the effect of different levels of flax seed oil in some qualitative characteristics of the eggs, the study included 27 Ostrich birds(18 females and 9 males), divided into three transactions with three replicates per treatment (each duplicate mentioned one male +2 females) which gave a total of 6 females+ 3males for each treatment, all the sexually birds were divided in pens designed specifically for repopulated, the experiment was divided into three transactions, TC (0% flax oil), T1 (1% flax oil), T2 (2 % flax oil), all the birds fed on a uniform diet along the breeding period of 20 weeks, containing 17.34% crude protein, and 2740.56 kilocalories metabolic energy / kg feed.

The fodder was prepared from the local market in the Musayyib district, and the grains were harvested and mixed in the Babel Reserve for breeding and production of ostriches.

falcons and deer in the orchard of the reserve.

Flax oil was added to the diets with three concentrations (0, 1%, 2%).

The results of the present study showed that the addition of flax oil in the above ratios improved the quality characteristics of the egg.

The characteristics of the crust (crust thickness, shell weight, relative weight of the shell) were significantly higher when comparing the two additive treatments with the control treatment.

control treatment.