author(s)
Dr. K Premavalli and Dr. AV Omprakash

abstract
A total of 300 day old Japanese quail chicks were used to assess the effect of dietary supplementation of fennel seeds on the production performance of Japanese Quails. Fennel seed powder was supplemented with basal ration at 0, 0.5, 1.0, and 1.5% levels. The groups supplemented with fennel seeds at 1.0 and 1.5% levels had resulted in significantly (P<0.01) higher mean body weight of 213.99±1.79g and 215.92±2.26g, respectively at sixth week of age than 0.5% supplemented group (208.69±1.94g) and control (205.15±2.06g). The mean feed conversion ratio did not have significant (P≥0.05) difference between different levels of fennel seeds supplementation. There was no significant difference in mean per cent livability between the fennel seeds supplemented groups and control. The study concluded that the supplementation of fennel seeds at 1% level in Japanese quail diet is beneficial to obtain better body weight at sixth week of age.