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Poultry Science, Vol 76, Issue 10, 1332-1336
Copyright © 1997 by Poultry Science Association

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A problem with characteristics of the thin albumen in laying hens

S Leeson and LJ Caston

Department of Animal and Poultry Science, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Industry observations indicate that a proportion of shell eggs exhibit an uncharacteristic spreading of the thin albumen when they are broken-out for fast-food preparation. Because the height and characteristics of the thick albumen are unaffected, the eggs are classified as Grade A. Preliminary observations discounted effects of egg storage or contaminated feed. Two experiments were conducted with Leghorn hens over a full laying cycle, and involved different levels of protein (14, 16, 18, or 20%) and associated amino acids, or different degrees of acid-base balance (150, 200, 250, or 300 mEq/kg). In each trial, treatments were represented by eight replicate groups of four adjacently and individually caged birds. Diet treatment had some effects on conventional production parameters, although there were no major effects on the area of the thin albumen produced when eggs were broken out. In Experiment 1, birds fed the highest level of protein produced eggs with the smallest thin albumen area; however, there was considerable bird to bird variation with thin albumen area varying from 69 to 122 cm2. Ten birds with compact (x 69 cm2) and 10 birds with spreading thin albumen (x 112 cm2) were inseminated with semen from a single, unrelated rooster. Offspring from these hens had significantly (P < 0.01) different thin albumen characteristics corresponding to those of their dams. Offspring producing eggs with the spreading thin albumen had the thickest eggshells as assessed by deformation measurement (P < 0.05). It is proposed that the excessively large spreading thin albumen area is caused by eggs spending more time in the shell gland.


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