Abstract

This study was carried out to determine the response of Japanese quails experimentally infected with Newcastle disease virus (NDV) kudu 113 strain using a haemagglutination inhibition test and the ability of the species to transmit the infection to chickens. The administration of kudu 113 strain of Newcastle disease virus (108.5 /ml) orally at 0.1ml/quail in the infected group (group B) resulted in an antibody response with a geometric mean titre of 23.79 on day 32 when compared to non-infected quails (group A) which did not show (p>0.05) evidence of Newcastle disease antibodies throughout the experiment and also differed significantly (p

Key words: Antibodies, Japanese quails, Newcastle disease, Newcastle disease virus, In-contact chickens