A doctoral thesis in the Department of Animal Production at the College of Agriculture at the University of Basrah investigated the effect of adding alcoholic extract of Lycium barbarum  parts to drinking water on some productive, physiological and reproductive characteristics of Japanese quail by researcher Arshad Talib Mohsen Sultan.

The study aimed to find out the effect of adding the alcoholic extract of Lycium barbarum parts to drinking water on some productive characteristics such as the percentage of hatching, fertility, rates of relative weights of the gonads and some physiological, reproductive and histological parameters of Japanese quail.

The results indicated that leaf and fruit extract were increased the productivity of birds, improve their physiological and reproductive characteristics, and improved the hatchability  and fertility.