تأثيـر إضافة كلوريد الصوديوم وفيتامين C إلى ماء الشرب في بعض الصفات الإنتاجية لطائر السمان الضخم Jumbo Quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

This study was conducted at quail's field of Agriculture Collage/University of Basrah for the period from 15/11/2015 to 15/1/2016 to examine the effect of adding sodium chloride (NaCl) and vitamin C to the drinking water on some productivity traits of Jumbo quail. The study was included one week old (216) chicks of brown Jumbo quail. They were randomly distributed to six treatment with three replicates each one 12 chicks for each replicates by Completely Randomized Design (CRD), the treatments as the following: T1 and T2 were added 1.5 and 2.5 gram (NaCl) to each 1 liter of drinking water (RO), respectively, T3 and T4 treatments were added 1.5 and 2.5 gram (NaCl) respectively and 1 gram vitamin C to each 1 liter of drinking water (RO), T5 treatment was added 1 gram vitamin C to each 1 liter of drinking water (RO) and T6 treatment control, only drinking water (RO). The results indicated to a significant increase (p