EFFECT OF IN OVO VACCINATION PROCEDURES ON JAPANESE QUAIL EMBRYOS (Coturnix japonica) AND INCUBATION PERFORMANCE

Authors

  • Josue Moura Romao University of Alberta
  • Thania Gislaine Vasconcelos de Moraes Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Rosa Patrícia Ramos Salles Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • William Maciel Cardoso Universidade Estadual do Ceará
  • Carlos Carbo Buxade Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/cab.v12i4.5234

Keywords:

Animal Production

Abstract

This work aimed to evaluate the effects of in ovo vaccination procedures on incubation of Japanese quail eggs. The experiment was carried out in a (4 x 3) factorial design with 12 experimental treatments (4 injection days x 3 injection protocols). The injections were tested on four incubation days: at 0, 5, 10 or 15. On each injection day, the eggs were submitted to one out of three distinct injection procedures: saline injection and Newcastle disease (ND) vaccine plus saline or industrial diluent. The eggs were incubated at 37.5º C and 60% RH. All eggs and hatched quails were weighed. Unhatched eggs were opened to classify embryo mortality. Hatched quails were raised to obtain blood to evaluate antibody response
against Newcastle disease virus (NDV). The injection process itself (saline) was not harmful at 10 and 15 days of incubation for Japanese quail eggs; however, in ovo vaccination with live ND vaccine (HB1 strain) is not recommended to fertile quail eggs at any incubation periods due to high levels of embryo mortality and poor post-hatch antibody titers.

KEYWORDS: eggs; in ovo injection; Japanese quail; Newcastle disease; vaccination.

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Author Biographies

Josue Moura Romao, University of Alberta

Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences, Poultry Research Centre

Thania Gislaine Vasconcelos de Moraes, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Laboratório de Estudos Ornitológicos, Faculdade de Veterinária

Rosa Patrícia Ramos Salles, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Laboratório de Estudos Ornitológicos, Faculdade de Veterinária

William Maciel Cardoso, Universidade Estadual do Ceará

Laboratório de Estudos Ornitológicos, Faculdade de Veterinária

Carlos Carbo Buxade, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos, Departamento de Producción Animal

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Published

2011-12-20

How to Cite

ROMAO, J. M.; MORAES, T. G. V. de; SALLES, R. P. R.; CARDOSO, W. M.; BUXADE, C. C. EFFECT OF IN OVO VACCINATION PROCEDURES ON JAPANESE QUAIL EMBRYOS (Coturnix japonica) AND INCUBATION PERFORMANCE. Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 12, n. 4, p. 584–592, 2011. DOI: 10.5216/cab.v12i4.5234. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/5234. Acesso em: 30 jun. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 4 (2011)

Section

Animal Production

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