Effects of Herbal Essential Oil Mixture as a Dietary Supplement on Egg Production in Quail

Table 1

Ingredient and chemical composition of the basal experimental layer quail diet (as fed).

Ingredient, %
Corn	52.76
Soybean meal (%44 CP)	25.78
Full fat soybean	8.00
Sunflower oil	2.47
Ground limestone	8.29
Dicalcium phosphate	1.29
Vitamin-mineral premix*	0.25
DL-methionine	0.71
Lysine	0.10
Salt	0.25
Sawdust**	0.10
Total	100.00
Calculated composition, %
Dry matter	89.42
Crude protein	19.00
Crude fiber	2.77
Crude ash	12.94
Ether extract	6.02
Met + Cys	0.75
Lysine	1.14
Calcium	3.50
ME, kcal/kg	2900
Total phosphorus	0.55
Available phosphorus	0.41

∗Supplied per kg of diet: vitamin A 12 000 IU; vitamin D3 3 000 IU; vitamin E 30 mg; vitamin K3 5 mg; vitamin B1, 3 mg; vitamin B2 12 mg; vitamin B6 4 mg; vitamin B12 0.03 mg; nicotine amid 55 mg; calcium-D-pantothenate 15 mg; folic acid 2 mg; D-biotin 0.250 mg; choline chloride 600 mg; Mn 80 mg; Fe 40 mg; Zn 60 mg; Cu 5 mg; I 0.4 mg; Co 0.1 mg; Se 0.15 mg. **Sawdust was substituted by antibiotic or essential oil mixture preparations.