author(s)
Premavalli K and Omprakash AV

abstract
A biological experiment was conducted by using 300 day old Japanese quail chicks randomly grouped into 4 treatments with 3 replicates of 25 chicks each. Garlic powder was incorporated at 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 per cent level in the basal diet of Japanese quail and fed for a period of 6 weeks to assess the growth performance. There was no significant difference in initial body weights upto fourth week between control and garlic powder supplemented groups. Quails fed with garlic powder supplemented diets exhibited significantly (P<0.05) higher mean live body weight from fourth to sixth week than control. Significantly (P<0.05) better feed conversion ratio was recorded for garlic powder supplemented diets T2 – T4 (2.88-2.85) than T1 control group (2.97). There was no significant difference in per cent livability. It was concluded that dietary supplementation of garlic powder at 1.5% level improved growth performance in Japanese quails.