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Morphological and Chemical Composition of Chicken Eggs as Affected by the Oviposition Time

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Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research in the Development of Agriculture in the Far East (AFE-2021) (AFE 2021)

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Abstract

Chicken egg is an important and cheap ingredient of the human diet worldwide. The oviposition time is an important endogenous factor affecting egg quality. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of oviposition time on the morphological and chemical parameters of egg quality in commercial flock of Hisex Brown layers (490 birds, since 210 to 450 days of age) housed in cage batteries (7 birds per cage) at constant lighting regime 14L:10D (the switch-on at 5 am, the switch-off at 7 pm). The eggs were collected separately during the following intervals of each day: 5–8 am, 8–10 am, 10–12 am, 12 am–2 pm, 2–4 pm. It was found that in eggs laid in the interval 5–8 am the average egg weight was significantly higher by 3.6–4.4% in compare to all later oviposition intervals, absolute albumen weight higher by 1.9–2.7%, absolute and relative yolk weights by 7.2–8.7 and 1.0–1.4%, respectively; the albumen/yolk ratio was lower 0.1–25.0-fold (p < 0.01–0.001). In eggs laid between 12 am and 4 pm the absolute eggshell weight was significantly higher by 3.3–6.7% in compare to eggs laid until 12 am, eggshell thickness by 1.0–5.7%, egg density by 0.2–0.5% (p < 0.05–0.001). The chemical composition of the eggs was not affected excluding the significantly higher by 8.3–20.3% content of vitamin B2 in yolk in eggs laid in the interval 5–8 am (p < 0.05–0.001).

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  1. All-Russian Research and Technological Institute of Poultry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Ptitsegradskaya Str.,10, 141311, Sergiev Posad, Russia

    Alexey Kavtarashvili & Evgeny Novotorov

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Kavtarashvili, A., Novotorov, E. (2022). Morphological and Chemical Composition of Chicken Eggs as Affected by the Oviposition Time. In: Muratov, A., Ignateva, S. (eds) Fundamental and Applied Scientific Research in the Development of Agriculture in the Far East (AFE-2021). AFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91405-9_94

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