Influence of Source and Quantity of Vitamin A Ingested Upon Liver Storage and Survival Time of Bobwhite Quail

INTRODUCTION THE wild populations of bobwhite quail have decreased greatly in number within recent years. This decrease has been general throughout the northern limits of the bobwhite’s range. Tremendous numbers of game farm reared quail have been released but with unsatisfactory survival results. It is possible that nutrition may have played a role in determining their survival. Vitamin A has been suggested as an important nutritional factor. The objectives of the investigations to be reported were: (1) to measure the relative values of provitamin A and true vitamin A in the diet, (2) to determine the optimum vitamin A content of the diet for growth, livability, liver storage of vitamin A, and survival under satisfactory and adverse conditions and, (3) to measure the relationship between vitamin A liver storage and survival under satisfactory and adverse conditions. REVIEW OF LITERATURE An excellent review of the literature on the nutrition of bobwhite . . .