Muffins are sweet, high-calorie baked products characterised by good taste and soft spongy texture. Egg is one of the main ingredients that play a pivotal role in maintaining nutritional and physical properties. Although egg possesses excellent functional properties the presence of high cholesterol, risk of allergies by egg protein (avidin) and religious taboos associated with its consumption l...

Brown trout (Salmo trutta) broodstock from a single population were separated prior to spawning and exposed to two different holding environments: a ‘raceway system’ and a ‘tank system’. Eggs were stripped from females and 13 measures of egg quality were collected, analysed individually, combined by principle components analysis into an integrated egg quality score which was validated against e...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary supplement-ation of rosemary essential oils (REO) and zinc (as zinc sulfate) on performance, egg quality traits, and some serum biochemical metabolites of laying hens. A total of 144 44-weeks-old Lohmann LSL-Lite laying hens were randomly allocated into four treatments, each comprising six replicates of six birds. The first group was s...

Marigold flower extract (MFE), a natural source of xanthophylls, was added to the diets of hens at different concentrations (0, 150, 250, and 350 mg/kg of diet) to determine the effects of MFE on hen performance, physical characteristics of egg quality, and carotenoid content of the egg yolk of hens housed in enriched cages. Additionally, the highest dose of MFE (350 mg/kg) was tested under com...

During the last century, egg production, transport and handling became a specialized industry. Egg quality was for a long time based on visual inspection. Today, the total number of the handled eggs and the rate of grading (up to 180 000 eggs/hour) is such that this visual inspection becomes impossible. This leads to a search for new non invasive devices to measure egg quality parameters. In th...

Pheasant eggs of different colors differ with regard to physical properties. This study was conducted to ascertain the intensity of infestation by microscopic fungi based on egg color. Settling intensity by microscopic fungi of pheasant egg shells and the content of eggs of different color during a 7-d storage period was investigated. The content of ergosterol (ERG) was used as a quantitative i...

and Implications An experiment was conducted with 48 laying hens to determine the effects of high dietary contents of corn dried distiller’s grains with solubles (DDGS) on nitrogen and dry matter manure excretion as well as egg production and egg quality. Diets containing 0, 23, 46, and 69% corn DDGS were fed to laying hens for 8 weeks after an initial 4-weeklong transition period during which ...

background: recent studies have shown that physical activity is an effective factor in improving sleep quality. therefore, this study aimed to compare the sleep quality of athlete and non-athlete pregnant women. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive analytical study was performed on 300 pregnant women in the last trimester of pregnancy, referred to prenatal care unit of amiralmomenin hospit...

An experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of using different levels of Red Pepper powder (RP) and Marigold flower powder (MF) on egg production, egg yolk color andsome blood metabolites in laying hens. Ninety, 103-weeks old laying hens were divided into 5 treatments groups of 6 birds in each cage with 3 replicates in a completely randomized design. The birds were fed a corn-soybean...