Quality Assessment of Eggs from Quails and Chickens

Fakolade Patience Olusola^*, Omonijo Faith Adeyinka & Akinduro Victor Olabisi

Osun State University, College of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ejigbo Osun State

Dr. Fakolade Patience Olusola, Osun State University, College of Agriculture, Department of Animal Science, Ejigbo Osun State.

Keywords: Chicken; Quail; Eggs; Fertile; Infertile

Abstract

Consumption of fertile eggs will provide more nutrients than infertile eggs, is the focus of the study. 120 chicken (layer) eggs and 120 quail’s birds were housed from day old to 24 weeks. 60 birds each were separated as treatment A to produce infertile eggs, while treatment B had 54 hens with 6 cocks, to produce fertile eggs in a factorial arrangement. Birds on treatment A were fed compounded layer mash, while those on treatment B were fed compounded grower mash. The eggs produced were evaluated for chemical and physical characteristics at the end of the study. Results revealed that, the egg albumen from both quail and chicken had significantly (p < 0>

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