Egg quality of laying hens in different conditions of storage, ages and housing densities

The objective of this research was to evaluate the quality of eggs from Dekalb White hens under different temperatures (room temperature, 25 ºC; and refrigeration, 8 ºC), storage times (7, 14 and 21 days), age of birds (35, 40, 45 and 50 weeks) and housing densities (625, 500, 416.6 and 357.14 cm²/b...

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Main Authors: Pasquoal Carrazzoni de Menezes, Evilda Rodrigues de Lima, Juliana Pinto de Medeiros, Wanessa Noadya Ketruy de Oliveira, Joaquim Evêncio-Neto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia 2012-09-01
Series:Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
Subjects:
hen
Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-35982012000900014