Fadilla Meidita, Vivi Hendrita, Yudha Endra Pratama
Feed additives are substances added to animal feed for various purposes, such as improving feed quality and enhancing livestock production and product quality. Eggs are a high-nutrient food item. This research aimed to analyze the effects of adding feed additives (moringa leaves and turmeric) to quail rations on quail egg weight, albumen weight percentage, and albumen index (AI). The study involved 180 quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica), aged four weeks and reared for eight weeks. The quails were distributed into six treatments with three replications, each with ten laying quails. This study employed a randomized factorial design with two factors and three replications. The first factor consisted of two levels of moringa leaf meal (0% and 3%), while the second factor included three levels of turmeric meal (0%, 0.5%, and 1%). The collected data were subjected to ANOVA at α 5% significance level, and Duncan's test was subsequently applied at the same significance level. The variance analysis results demonstrated a significant interaction (p<0.05) between the addition of moringa leaf meal and turmeric meal to the feed and their effects on egg weight and AI. However, when TM was administered alone, the albumen weight was significantly affected (p<0.05). In conclusion, adding moringa leaf meal and turmeric meal was effective in increasing quail egg weight, while the supplementation of turmeric alone improved the percentage of albumen. © 2025 Author(s).
Department of Agroindustry, Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia; Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Andalas, Padang, Indonesia
