Effect of Different Age and Plumage Color on Egg Quailty with Cholesterol Level in Japanese Quail Eggs
EDUVET International Veterinary Sciences Congress, Nevşehir, Turkey, 25 - 27 June 2021, pp.84-85, (Summary Text)
- Publication Type: Conference Paper / Summary Text
- City: Nevşehir
- Country: Turkey
- Page Numbers: pp.84-85
- Open Archive Collection: AVESIS Open Access Collection
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: Yes
Abstract
Effect of Different Age and Plumage Color on Egg Quailty with Cholesterol Level in Japanese Quail Eggs
Summary
This study was carried out in order to examine the effects of different feather colors and ages on the cholesterol values as well as the internal and external quality characteristics of eggs. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of different feather colors and ages on the internal and external quality characteristics of eggs as well as cholesterol values. Also, it was aimed to investigate the quality parameters of the egg weight, which is one of the quality characteristics of quail eggs, in Japanese quails of different feather colors and ages. As the study material, the eggs both of original colored Japanese quails and Jumbo quail line 23 weeks old selected in terms of live weight with yellow feathers and the eggs of the 39-week-old Jumbo quail line were used each reared in Prof. Dr. Hümeyra ÖZGEN Research and Application Farm of Selcuk University Veterinary Faculty at Konya. Furthermore, internal and external quality characteristics of 100 randomly selected eggs from the 23-week-old original Japanese quail and Jumbo quail line and the 39-week-old Jumbo quail line (respectively 40-40-20 eggs) were investigated. In order to determine the egg weight, modeling was done by using the variables of egg width, shape index, yolk height, yolk diameter, white weight, shell weight, egg volume, and egg length. In the evaluation made between the groups, an increase in cholesterol was detected depending on the increase in age; this difference between the mean cholesterol values of the groups is statistically significant (p<0.01). As a result of this study, it was determined that age and feather color affect some egg quality characteristics and cholesterol amounts in quails. It can be said that orginal colored Japanese quails breeding are still more suitable than yellow feathered Japanese quail for demand fullfıllment to low-cholesterol foods nowadays.
Keywords: Age, cholesterol, egg quality, plumage color, quail