Adding supplements to hen feed can increase egg nutritional value. Astaxanthin, tocotrienols, and tocopherols are potent antioxidants that provide health benefits to humans. We hypothesized that the addition of these nutrients to hen feed would result in an increased nutrient content in egg yolk with minimum changes in functional properties. Laying hens (Hy-Line W-36 breed) were fed four diets ...

Blue-green and brown-spotted eggshells in birds have been proposed as sexual signals of female physiological condition and egg quality, reflecting maternal investment in the egg. Testing this hypothesis requires linking eggshell coloration to egg content, which is lacking for brown protoporphyrin-based pigmentation. As protoporphyrins can induce oxidative stress, and a large amount in eggshells...

The objective of this work was to determine the influence natural (marigold flower extract) and synthetic (canthaxanthin) pigments on shelf life eggs from light laying hens in final stages production. 288 birds were distributed a completely randomized design, with eight treatments, consisted four levels marigold extract (2.1; 2.4; 2.7 3 ppm) canthaxanthin (0.4 ; 0.7; 1,0 1.3 ppm), each treatmen...

Most of the noodles are made from wheat flour, for countries that do not produce this is a problem because need must be imported and generates large amount foreign exchange. This situation resulted in research involving use non-wheat flour or mixing with other to noodles. study aims determine effect substitution yellow sweet potato egg yolk manufacture wet The used factorial completely randomiz...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects quail egg yolk extenders in cryopreservation cockerel semen. Ten Venda cockerels were chosen randomly and semen collected twice a week with two-day rest period using an abdominal massage technique. Immediately following collection, samples evaluated for microscopic parameters (sperm cell motility, viability, morphology, abnormalities) as well...

The effects of dietary vitamin A supplementation on reproductive performance, liver function, fat-soluble vitamin retention, and immune response were studied in laying broiler breeders. In the first phase of the experiment, 1,120 Ross-308 broiler breeder hens were fed a diet of corn and soybean meal supplemented with 5,000 to 35,000 IU/kg vitamin A (retinyl acetate) for 20 weeks. In the second ...

The experiment was carried out to evaluate the effects of supplementing laying hen diets with different percentages of black tea factory waste (BTFW), evaluating performance, egg quality, yolk oxidation, and blood parameters. Twenty-four-week-old Lohmann layers (n=144) were divided into six dietary treatment groups (24 hens each), which were fed standard commercial diets supplemented with 0% (c...

Two hundred and sixteen Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA) brown layers (40 wks of age) were studied for 6 wks to examine the effect of microalgae powder (MAP) on egg production, egg quality, blood lipid profile, and fatty acid concentration of egg yolk. Dietary treatments were as follows: i) CON (basal diet), ii) 0.5% MAP (CON+0.5% Schizochytrium powder), and iii) 1.0% MAP (CON+1.0% Schizochy...

The aim of the study was to investigate effect short-term dietary spirulina supplementation (1% and 3%) strain laying hens (White Leghorn: WL Rhode Island Red: RIR) on color, nutritional value, stability yolk. Egg weight not affected by any studied effects. Yolks from 3%-spirulina supplemented had higher retinol lower α-tocopherol content (p = 0.0001) when compared control. with 1%-spirulina ma...