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DOI: 10.31248/JASVM
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Egg quality traits of some selected indigenous poultry species in Nigeria
https://doi.org/10.31248/JASVM2024.449 | Article Number: 363BD3484 | Vol.9 (4) - August 2024
Received Date: 19 June 2024 | Accepted Date: 21 July 2024 | Published Date: 30 August 2024
Authors: Awoneye, Olusola Olufisayo* , Olusegun, Olawumi Boladale and Imoru, Aruna
Keywords: Acceptability, consumer, external quality, internal quality, Indigenous species.
Egg quality traits are so important for both consumers and for developing new chicks, hence, this research investigated the egg quality traits of four indigenous poultry species (Guinea fowl, Turkey, Duck and Chicken). Forty-eight eggs (12 eggs from each species) were used for this experiment, each treatment was replicated three times, and each egg was assessed separately for its internal and external egg quality traits. T1 represents eggs from guinea fowl, T2 stands for eggs obtained from Turkey, T3 represents duck eggs, and T4 was collected from chicken. All data were subjected to one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) using a completely randomized design (CRD) of the SPSS version 25 statistical package. The result of the external egg quality revealed that there were significant differences (p<0.05) in all the parameters investigated. It was observed that eggs obtained from Indigenous turkey (T2) had the highest egg weight and egg length values of 73.00 g and 6.33 cm respectively. The analysis also showed that eggs from indigenous guinea fowl (T1) had the highest (p<0.05) shell thickness value of 0.45 mm, while the lowest shell thickness value of 0.23 mm was observed in eggs obtained from indigenous chicken (T4). Analysis of the internal quality traits showed that eggs from indigenous ducks (T3) had the highest yolk weight value of 24.80 g which was significantly different (p<0.05) from the yolk weight values of other indigenous poultry species. Eggs obtained from guinea fowl (T1) and duck (T3) had the highest (p<0.05) yolk colour value of 11.30. The albumen height and weight were observed to be highest (p<0.05) in eggs obtained from Indigenous Turkey (T2) with values of 0.82 cm and 37.40 g respectively. It could be concluded that the indigenous Turkey eggs (T2) had high values for most of the egg quality parameters studied, which could have been responsible for its higher egg weight.
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