This study was conducted at Gharabo farm, Fac. Agric. Damascus
Universityin order to determine the effect of heat sress and level of vit. C on the
blood indicators of of Japanese quailc A total of 252 females Chicks were
distributed randomly into
two groups (G and G2) at one day of age, The chicks
in G1were subjected to an ideal temperature required according to their age up
to 30 days old, while the chicks in G2 were subjected to heat stress at 42 °C
during the daytime from 8 am to 5 pm and to ideal temperature from 5pm to
8am for the same period of rearing. Chicks of each group were distributed into
three subgroups given three levels of vitamin C: 0, 10 and20 g/l, with three
replicates for each sub-group during the rearing period. Blood samples were
collected from eighteen birds selected randomly from each group. Results
indicated that there was a significant increase in both red blood cells and
hemoglobin in the stressed group.
