AIM The present study was conducted to evaluate the performance of gray, brown, and white varieties of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) with respect to body weight, egg production, and egg quality traits in the coastal climatic condition of Odisha. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 500-day-old straight run Japanese quail chicks of three varieties, viz., gray, brown, and white were r...

Cryogenic cooling of shell eggs with carbon dioxide (CO(2)) is known to improve egg content quality through rapid cooling as well as by increasing internal CO(2) levels. A study was undertaken to determine the effects of variations in atmospheric CO(2) concentrations (aerobically stored, flushed with CO(2) and sealed, or bubbled with CO(2)) on the survival and growth of Salmonella Enteritidis i...

The present research was designed to examine the genetic analysis of egg weight, egg yolk weight and egg albumen weight of Bovan Neva Black laying hens at 25, 51 and 72 weeks. For this purpose, thirty birds were selected from the layer flock in the Babcock University Teaching and Research Farm. They were individually housed in separate labeled battery cage. A total of thirty eggs were collected...

The purpose of this in vitro study was to compare egg albumen, whole bovine milk, human saliva, and tissue culture medium (MEM) for effect on the viability of human skin fibroblasts and their osmolalities. Confluent monolayers of fibroblasts were grown. Growth medium was poured off and dishes were divided into five groups, 15 dishes each of: 1) chick egg albumen; 2) fresh whole milk; 3) human s...

I. The course of digestion of freeze-dried and heat-damaged egg albumen labelled with 14C in all its constituent amino acids was compared in germ-free and conventional chicks. The albumen was given at a level of 10 % in a test meal containing 28 % protein. Samples of digesta were taken 5 h later and analysed for 14C and nitrogenous constituents. 2. After administration of unheated albumen, II y...

THE CONCLUSIONS WHICH WE DERIVE FROM OUR OBSERVATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. The excretion of injected, egg-albumen as such is in no case complete. The quantity retained varies from 23 to 100%. 2. The amount retained varies: a) directly with the slowness of absorption. This is determined by the manner of administration. b) directly with the time during which the proteid remains in the body; and the...

Effects of plasticizer types and whey protein concentrate (WPC) as coatings were evaluated on internal quality shelf life eggs stored for 42 days. Eggs coated with WPC at 8 % solution combined the plasticizers glycerol (GLY), sorbitol (SOR), propylene glycol (PRO). The 20 °C. Weight loss, Haugh Unit (HU), albumen yolk pH, index (YI) weekly from day 0 to After, electron microscopy eggshell struc...

Normal chick embryos swallow and utilize the albumen in the egg between the 11th and 15th day of incubation (Witschi, 1949). They use approximately two-thirds of the yolk by the end of incubation (Romanoff & Romanoff, 1949). Thus the embryo has access to 4 g of protein in the albumen and 3 g of protein in the yolk (Romanoff & Romanoff, 1949). Embryos which have been hypophysectomized by partial...

avian leukosis viruses (alvs) cause different types of tumours in poultry and can affect the health and egg production of the birds. to investigate the presence of the virus in chicken layer flocks in shiraz, 222 egg albumen from local layer breeder (25 eggs), local layer grand parent (30 eggs), broiler breeder (60 eggs), commercial layer (46 eggs) and broiler grand parent (61 eggs) were tested...