Hens That Exhibit Poorer Feed Efficiency Produce Eggs with Lower Albumen Quality and Are Prone to Being Overweight

Feed efficiency (FE) is an important measure of productivity in the layer industry; however, little is known about how FE differs between individual hens during the egg-laying cycle and the implications for egg quality parameters. Individual 25-week-old ISA Brown hens were observed for 42 days, rank...

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Published in:	Animals
Main Authors:	Doreen Onyinye Anene, Yeasmin Akter, Peter Campbell Thomson, Peter Groves, Sonia Liu, Cormac John O’Shea
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2021-10-01
Subjects:	egg quality laying hens performance traits feed efficiency amino acids
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/10/2986