Impact of all a toxin and toxin binders on the fertile hatchability performance of breeding Japanese quails, coturnix coturnix japonica

摘要

Mycotoxins p!ay a global role in human and animal health. Aflatoxins cause malperformance, metabolic disorders and pathologic alterations in different species of poultry.Various species of poultry differ in susceptibility to acute and subacute aflatoxicosis. This work was carried out to study the role of locally available herbal plant extracts such as Azadirachta indica, Cynodon dactylon and Curcuma longa in counteracting the effects of experimental aflatoxicosis in laying Japanese quail by feeding them with diets containing aflatoxin at 1.5 and 3ppm levels for a period of six weeks. Aflatoxin "a silent killer" is one of the most common toxins that threaten the human life. Turkey 'X' disease was reported to be dietary in origin. (Allcroft and Carnaghan, 1963} due to incorporation of Brazilian Peanut meal (Blount, 1961) which was one of the common ingredients of the feed stock for the turkeys and a chloroform extract of the meal yielded toxic components which were responsible for the occurrence of the disease in ducklings (Allcroft et al., 1961). Aflatoxins were cited as the cause of the Turkey X disease which resulted in high mortalities in southern England in 1960 (Asplin & Carnaghan, 1961) and it might also be a cause of poultry haemorrhagic syndrome (Forgacs, 1962) and fatty liver syndrome (Hamilton & Garlich, 1971).