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The treatments included five levels of MM powder: 0% (control), 0.2%, 0.4%, 0.6% and 0.8% of the diet.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Adding MM to the diet had no significant effects on egg production, egg mass and weight, feed intake or feed conversion ratio. Increasing MM levels significantly decreased egg\u2010shape index (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05). The highest egg\u2010shape index was observed in control and 0.2% MM groups (79.9%), whereas the lowest was observed in 0.8% treatment (75.1%). MM significantly increased blood high\u2010density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL\u2010C) and decreased low\u2010density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL\u2010C) concentrations (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05). Highest HDL\u2010C concentration was observed in 0.8% MM, which was significantly (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05) higher than that in the control and other treatments. Lowest LDL\u2010C was observed in 0.4%\u20130.8% MM, which was significantly (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05) lower than that of control and 0.2% MM. MM linearly decreased LDL\u2010C (\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u00a0&lt;\u00a00.05). Dietary MM improved primary immune responses, as evidenced by higher immunoglobulin M (IgM) titres, whereas immunoglobulin G (IgG) and total anti\u2010sheep red blood cells (SRBC) titres remained unchanged.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Adding MM to the diet had no significant effect on productive performance, resulted in the production of elongated eggs and improved blood lipid profiles and primary immune responses in laying quails.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1002\/vms3.70945","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,24]],"date-time":"2026-04-24T18:48:34Z","timestamp":1777056514000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["The Effect of Adding Mountain Mint (\n                    <i>Ziziphora clinopodioides<\/i>\n                    Lam.) to Diet of Laying Japanese Quails on Productive Performance, Egg Quality Traits, Blood Metabolites and Immune Response"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8601-7983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ahmad","family":"Hassanabadi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Science Faculty of Agriculture Ferdowsi University of Mashhad  Mashhad Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-8386-5153","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mojtaba Teymoori","family":"Oghaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Science Faculty of Agriculture Ferdowsi University of Mashhad  Mashhad Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2739-2580","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Heydar","family":"Zarghi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Animal Science Faculty of Agriculture Ferdowsi University of Mashhad  Mashhad Iran"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_12_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s11101\u2010025\u201010129\u20102"},{"key":"e_1_2_12_3_1","volume-title":"Identification of Essential Oil Components by Gas Chromatography\/Mass Spectrometry","author":"Adams R. 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