The Effect of Different Dietary Purslane Seed (Portulaca Oleracea L.) Levels on Carcass, Blood Lipid Profile and Antioxidant Activity in Quails

This study was carried out to determine the effect of dietary purslane seed (Portulaca oleracea L.) diets on the carcass, serum lipid profile and antioxidant activity in quails. A total of 140 one-day-old quail chicks allocated into 4 treatment groups with 5 replicates. The treatment groups as follows: (1) Control (C, without purslane seed addition), (2) 2.5% purslane seed addition to the control diet, (3) 5% purslane seed addition to the control diet, (4) 10% purslane seed addition to the control diet. The treatments did not affect the slaughter weight, carcass, and carcass part yields (p>0.05) of the birds in the treatment groups. However, the total intestinal weights of the birds in the 2.5% purslane supplemented group were lower than those of the other groups (p0.05). The dietary inclusion of 10% purslane seed caused an increase to MDA level compared to C and 2.5% purslane seed supplemented groups (