Study of egg quality traits in Vanaraja male line (PD-1)

Abstract

The experiment was carried out to evaluate different external and internal egg quality traits in Vanaraja male line (PD-1) chicken. The average egg weight (g), yolk colour, shape index, Haugh unit, yolk weight (g), albumen weight (g), shell weight (g), and shell thickness (mm) were, respectively, 56.94±0.21, 7.58±0.06, 76.61±0.22, 84.88±0.49, 17.38±0.07, 30.53±0.16, 5.07±0.11 and 0.32±0.0013. Significant differences (p≤0.05) in haugh unit, shell weight and shell thickness, high significant difference (p≤0.01) in albumen weight and very high significant difference (p≤0.001) in egg weight, yolk colour, yolk weight, at 40 weeks of age were observed among four hatches.