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Poultry egg quality
Egg quality defines those characteristics of an egg that affect consumer acceptability and preference. Components of quality include shell quality and interior egg quality for shell eggs, and interior egg quality for further processed eggs. The quality of the egg once it is laid cannot be improved. Hence, its maintenance is mostly a preventive process. Egg quality is influenced by several factors including rearing, temperature, humidity, handling, storage, and egg age. Shell quality: There are five major classes of shell defects: integrity, texture, shape, color, and cleanliness. Internal egg quality involves functional, aesthetic and microbiological properties of the egg yolk and albumen. The proportions of components for fresh egg are 32% yolk, 58% albumen and 10% shell. Regarding exterior egg quality, the shell of each egg should be smooth, clean and free of cracks. The eggs should be uniform in colour, size and shape.
With bird flu and mad cow disease fueling food scares across the region, companies are plugging "safe" alternatives such as liquid eggs and ostrich meat to tempt health-conscious consumers.
With bird flu and mad cow disease fueling food scares across the region, companies are plugging "safe" alternatives such as liquid eggs and ostrich meat to tempt health-conscious consumers.
The products appear alongside other niche foods, including halal dim sum, at Asia's top international food and...
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Embrex Inc., The In Ovo Company, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted Embrex's Inovocox coccidiosis vaccine for poultry a Veterinary Biological Product License which allows the Company to market and sell the product in the United States. Simultaneously, the USDA granted a Veterinary Biologics Establishment License to Embrex Poultry Health LLC, the Company's manufacturing subsidiary based in Scotland County, North Carolina, where the new vaccine will be...
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Embrex Inc., The In Ovo Company, announced today that Randall L. Marcuson, president and chief executive officer, will make a presentation at the SEINVEST 2006 Institutional Investor Conference, an invitation-only conference being held on Thursday, April 6, 2006, at the Washington-Duke Inn in Durham, NC.
Embrex's presentation will be web cast live at approximately 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. EDT. It can be accessed on the Internet via the company's web site by clicking on the investor relations...
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Because of the threat of a pandemic flu, possibly from avian influenza, authorities world wide are increasing their stocks of flu vaccine. Today’s flu vaccines are developed in fertile chicken eggs. The eggshell is cracked, and the influenza virus is injected into the fluid surrounding the embryo.
The egg is resealed, the embryo becomes infected, and the resulting virus is then harvested, purified and used to produce the vaccine. Because of the large demand of flu vaccines, there is a...
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Embrex, Inc., The In Ovo Company(R), (Nasdaq: EMBX) today announced Andrea Sinclair, D.V.M., was named Field Veterinarian for the United States and Canada. Effectively immediately, she will report to Ron Bryant, Vice President of North American and Latin American sales and service operations.
Dr. Sinclair received both her doctorate in veterinary medicine and her Bachelor of Science degree in Poultry Science from North Carolina State University. She received a Master's of Avian...
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In layers there are impacted oviduct problems coming regularly after 30 weeks of age and they are not responding to treatments. ...
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