TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gharahveysi, Shahabodin 
AU  - Niaki, Seyed Milad Farhadi 
AU  - Irani, Mehrdad 
PY  - 2012
TI  - The Effect of Broiler Breeder Ages on the Qualitive and Quantitive Properties of the Egg
JF  - American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
DO  - 10.3844/ajavsp.2012.136.140
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajavsp.2012.136.140
AB  - Broiler breeder age is one of the most important factors that affects on egg properties. However by increasing the age of broiler breeder flock, the quality of eggs and consequently the quality of their chick products would be changed. In order to study the effect of broiler breeder flock age on the various aspects of chick products, 300 fertilizable eggs were selected randomly, from 3 broiler breeder farms. Selected eggs were collected from broilers that were 30 (young), 36 (peak), 43(after peak), 53 (old), 60 (very old) and 82 (molted) weeks old. Collected eggs were stored during 3 to 4 days in the ambient temperature. Qualitive and quantitive aspects of eggs including egg weight, albumen height yolk, height thickness of egg shell, yolk color, Albumen and yolk PH and Hugh unit were studied. Trait Analysis was done by ANOVA procedure of SAS statistical software. To compare the means, Duncan test was used. The effects of age and breeder farms on the egg weight, yolk color, yolk and albumen PH, yolk and albumen height, shell egg thickness and Hugh unit were significant (p