• 한국가금학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.31-38
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• 2016

Consumers demand fresh and high-quality eggs. Egg quality may be represented by shell color, shell weight, egg weight, shell thickness, shell density, albumen height, yolk color, albumen pH and viscosity. Various factors such as strain, age of hen, storage temperature, humidity, the presence of $CO_2$ and storage time affect egg quality. Therefore, we investigated the effects of storage time and temperature on egg quality to define the freshness of Korean market eggs. A total of 1,800 eggs were used for this experiment and were separated into 45 treatments with 40 eggs in each. The treatments were consisted of 15 storage periods (2 d to 30 d) and 3 storage temperatures ($2^{\circ}C$, $12^{\circ}C$, $25^{\circ}C$). Each egg was weighed and broken, and the height of the thick albumen, Haugh units (HU), egg shell color and yolk color were measured by a QCM+system. We also observed the physiochemical properties of eggs such as yolk pH, albumen pH and albumen viscosity. The egg weight, shell weight, albumen height, HU and albumen viscosity significantly decreased with increasing storage time and temperature. However, the albumen and yolk pH significantly increased with increasing storage period and temperature. The interaction effects between the storage period and temperature were significant for shell weight, shell density, egg weight, albumen height, HU, yolk color, yolk pH, albumen pH and albumen viscosity. In the analysis of the correlation with egg quality, the storage temperature exhibited a higher correlation coefficient than the storage period. In conclusion, storage time and temperature are the major factors affecting egg quality, but the storage temperature is a more sensitive determinant of egg quality deterioration compared with the storage period.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제23권6호
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• pp.772-776
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• 2010

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary domestic Skullcap (Scutellaria baicalensis) extracts (SCE) on laying performance and egg quality in laying hens. There were no significant differences in feed intake, egg production, or relative liver and spleen weights. The egg weights in groups fed diets containing SCE were significantly increased as compared with the control. The number of cecal total microbes in the group fed a diet containing 0.5% SCE was significantly reduced as compared with other groups. The malondialdehyde contents in stored eggs were significantly lowered by feeding SCE. The Haugh unit in the groups fed diets containing SCE tended to be increased after 2 weeks storage, but not significantly. This result indicated that dietary domestic SCE may delay lipid oxidation in eggs when added to laying hen diets.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.67-73
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• 2013

With an increasing concern on laying hen welfare, barn system has appeared as one of the alternatives to replace the conventional cage. This study was conducted to compare the early laying performance and egg quality at the barn system with those at the conventional cage. A total of 288 shaver-579 brown layers were used for 9 weeks ($21^{st}$ to $30^{th}$ weeks of age) feeding study. Feed consumption and egg weight were significantly (P<0.01) higher at barn than at cage. However, there were no significant differences between two housing systems on hen day egg production (HDEP), egg mass, body weight, feed efficiency and livability. In case of egg quality parameters, shell thickness, albumen height and Haugh unit were significantly (P<0.05) different between two systems. Haugh unit and albumen height were significantly higher in eggs produced at cage (88.97 and 8.16 mm) compared than those produced at barn (83.11 and 6.87 mm), whereas shell thickness was thicker in eggs produced at barn than those produced at cage. Shape index, breaking strength, blood spots and yolk index data were not influenced significantly by the types of housing system. To implement welfare bestowing production, this study showed that the barn system can replace the conventional cage without serious sacrifices on starting phase egg production. In addition, this study suggested that the barn system need to be optimized in view of daily feed consumption.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2000

Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent cell lines, which derived from preimplantation embryo. These cells have been used as a vehicle of foreign DNA for production of transgenic mammals. this experiment was performed to examined the possible use of blastodermal cells derived from hen's egg for germline manipulation. Stage X blsdtodermal cells isolated from fertilized eggs were cultured in DMEM containing 15% fetal calf serum. Blastodermal cells wre co-cultured on the chicken embryonic fibroblast (CEF) or mouse embryonic fibroblast(MEF) cells. to examine the effects of growth factors on stem cell growth, bFGF and LIF were added. There was no significant difference in colony formation of putative ES cells between CEF and MEF as a feederlayer, but the addition of growth factors enhanced the proliferation and inhibited differentiation of blastodermal cells. To characterize the cell colonies as a putative ES cells, putative embryonic cell colonies were stained by periodic acid Schiffs (PAS) reagent. The putative ES cell colonies showed intensive positive reaction similar to the property of undifferentiated PGC upto 20days in vitro, but not in other cell types. this result demonstrates that PAS-positive cell colonies may be used for the study of establishment of chicken ES cell lines for the production of transgenic chicken.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제24권10호
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• pp.1447-1455
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• 2011

Sixty four, 30-week-old, Lohmann Brown-Lite laying hens were randomly allocated to one of four treatments with eight replicates per treatment and two hens per replicate for a 10 week study. The control diet was a high energy (11.81 MJ/kg) diet and the moderate energy (11.39 MJ/kg) diets were formulated dropping the level of animal fat. The three moderate energy diets were fed either unsupplemented (0.0%) or supplemented with 0.05 or 0.10% glycine. There were no significant differences (p>0.05) in hen-day egg production, egg weight, feed intake or feed conversion between birds fed the unsupplemented moderate energy and high energy diets. Significant differences were detected concerning egg components and quality measurements as assessed by albumen percentage (p = 0.02), yolk weight (p = 0.02), yolk percentage (p<0.01), yolk to albumen ratio (p<0.01) and yolk color (p = 0.01) between birds fed the unsupplemented moderate and high energy diets. Glycine supplementation of the moderate energy diet linearly increased (p<0.01) egg weight and feed intake with no significant (p>0.05) effects on egg production or feed conversion. Glycine supplementation significantly increased egg content (p<0.01), albumen weight (p<0.01) and percentage (p<0.01) as well as yolk weight (p<0.01) while yolk percentage (p = 0.04), yolk to albumen ratio (p = 0.01) and egg shell percentage (p<0.01) were linearly decreased. Supplementation with glycine produced a tendency (p = 0.09) towards an increase in the percentage of large eggs (63-72.9 g) produced with a concomitant decrease in the percentage of small (below 53 g) eggs (p = 0.09). The overall results of this study indicate that glycine supplementation of laying hen rations has the potential to increase egg production and weight. These increases appeared to be mediated through increases in feed intake and the ileal digestibility of fat and energy.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.181-187
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• 2000

This work was designed to investigate the performances of broiler breeder hens upon the addition were vitamin and mineral supplements in feeds. Animals were divided into for feed groups such as control, T$_1$,T$_2$and T$_3$, and each treatment has four replications. All broiler breeder hens were housed individually, and were fed with identical iso-metaboilic energy and iso-protein, except for vitamins and minerals. Different sources and levels of vitamins and minerals were added to the basic feeds according to the treatments. At the end of the experiments, general laying rate(hen days), average egg weight, hatching egg laying rate(Hen day) every day. Hatching egg weight, sterility, embryo mortality, hatching rate and chick weight were examined. Although, early laying rate in all treatment groups were reduced during cold term management, general egg laying rate was increased only T$_3$group which was contanining vitamin C. However, similar results were obtained in the rates of general and hatching egg laying. General egg laying rate were somewhat higher of Control, T$_2$and T$_3$ groups than that of T$_1$group. In addition, the laying rates of general and hatching eggs slightly improved in the T$_3$group rather than those of Control group. Egg weight was reduced with the increasing of laying rate, showing the highest in the T$_3$group. The laying rate showed significantly lower value than those of any other groups. Egg weight was about 65g in T$_3$group. The results of hatching performance for production ability of Broiler breeder hens were fed experimental diet, although the rates of non-hatched and hatched eggs increased in order of Control, T$_1$T$_2$and T$_3$groups. However, the rate of embryo mortality was declined in order Control, T$_1$T$_2$and T$_3$groups.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.764-772
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• 2017

Fertilized hen eggs are rich in a variety of bioactive ingredients. In this study, we aimed to obtain an antioxidant protein from fertilized eggs and the radical scavenging abilities on 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH), hydroxyl radical (${\bullet}OH$), superoxide anion ($O^{2-}{\bullet}$) were used to evaluate the antioxidant activity of the purified protein. During 20 d of incubation, the radical scavenging ability of protein extracted from fertilized eggs exhibited significantly differences and the protein on day 16 showed higher antioxidant capacity. Based on this, the antioxidant protein of the samples on day 16 were isolated for the follow-up study. With a molecular weight 43.22 kDa, the antioxidant protein was purified by Diethylaminoethyl cellulose -52 (DEAE-52) column and Sephadex G-100. The LC-MS analysis showed that the purified protein molecular weight was 43.22 kDa, named D2-S. The sequence of amino acids was highly similar to ovalbumin and the coverage reached to 84%. The purified protein showed a radical scavenging rate of $52.34{\pm}3.27%$ on DPPH and $63.49{\pm}0.25%$ on ${\bullet}OH$, respectively. Furthermore, the C-terminal amino acid sequence was NAVLFFGRCVSP, which was consistent with the sequence of ovabumin. These results here indicated that purified protein may be a potential resource as a natural antioxidant.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.421-427
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• 2009

A mixture of three dietary medicinal herb extracts (MHE, mulberry leaf:Japanese honeysuckle:goldthread = 48.5: 48.5:3.0) was prepared as an additive of hen's feed. One hundred-eight, 28-wk-old Lohmann Brown hens were assigned randomly with three levels of MHE in the diet (0, 0.3, and 1%). Hens were fed for 6 wks and eggs were collected in the 6th week, and stored at $4^{\circ}C$ for 14 days to investigate the effect of MHE on the quality and oxidative stability of eggs. Internal quality of the egg including weight, shell color, albumen height, yolk color, shell weight, shell thickness, and Haugh units was not different among the dietary treatments. The oxidation stability of raw and cooked egg was determined by 2-thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) value, 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical scavenging activity and 2,2'-azinobis(3-ethylbenzonthianoline-6-sulfonic acid) ($ABTS^{+}$) radical reducing ability. Results indicated that TBARS value at day 0 and $ABTS^{+}$ radical reducing ability of eggs from hens fed MHE were higher than from the control group. However, DPPH radical scavenging activity showed no difference in both raw and cooked samples. Results of the present study indicate that dietary MHE may slightly enhance the oxidative stability of eggs.

• 한국가금학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국가금학회 2004년도 제21차 정기총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.35-36
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• 2004

난백의 높이와 하우유니트(HU)는 저장온도에 관계없이 저장기간이 경과할수록 감소되는 경향이 있었던 반면에 난백의 pH는 반대로 증가하는 경향이 있었다. 일반적으로 $3\;^{\circ}C$에서 저장되었던 계란들은 $10\;^{\circ}C$에서 저장된 계란들보다 HU는 더 높게 나타났던 반면에, 난백의 pH는 더 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 한편 통계적으로 유의한 차이는 아니었지만 무정란은 유정란에 비해서 저장온도에 관계없이 난백의 높이 및 HU는 더 높은 것으로 나타났고, $3\;^{\circ}C$에서 저장된 계란들의 난백의 pH는 무정란이 유정란보다 더 높았으나(P<0.05), $10\;^{\circ}C$에서 저장된 계란들의 경우는 유정란과 무정란간에 별 차이가 없었다. 난각강도는 유정란이 무정란보다 두 온도역 모두 유의하게(P<0.05) 더 컸었다. 그리고 암탉의 수정에 관계없이 난백의 높이와 pH는 부(-)의 상관관계(P<0.01~0.001)가 있었고, 난백의 높이와 HU는 정(+)의 상관관계(P<0.001)를 나타내었다. 이상의 결과를 종합해 보면, 난백의 높이 혹은 HU와 같은 계란의 신선도 변화에 있어서 상대적으로 암탉의 수정 유무보다는 저장기간과 저장온도가 더 중요한 요인인 것으로 사료되며, 일반적으로 저장온도가 낮을수록 HU는 증가되는 반면에 난백의 pH는 반대로 감소되는 것으로 보여진다.

• 한국가금학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.177-185
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• 1992

본 연구는 대한양계협회에서 1985년부터 1991년까지 7회에 걸쳐 실시한 산난계 경제능력 검정성적을 기초로 하여 유색산난계의 연파난 발생비율과 다른 형질간의 년차별 평균능력의 변화와 연파난 발생비율이 다른 형질들에 의해 변화되는 정도를 추정하여 상관계수를 구하여 산난계의 연파난 발생비율을 감소시킬 수 있는 산란계 개량 방향과 사양관리조건 개선에 대한 기초 자료를 제시하기 위하여 실시한 것으로 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 유색산난계의 18∼72주령 초산일령은 163.6일, 산난율은 79.49％, 산난지수는 272.9개, 난중은 62.69g이었으며, 연파난 발생비율은 1.141％이었고 백색산난계는 18∼72주령에 각 형질의 평균능력이 각각 157.2일, 77.87％, 265.1개, 60.26g이었으며 연파난 발생비율은 1.174％이었다. 2. 유색산난계의 18∼72주령과 18∼78주령에 조사된 각 형질의 능력에 대한 유의성 검정결과 생존율, 초산일령, 산난율, 사료요구율, 체중 및 연파난 발생비율은 고도의 통계적 유의성(P＜0.01)이 인정되었다. 3. 유색산난계의 '85∼'91년 기간중 18∼72주령에는 초산일령은 168.5일에서 155.9일로 단축되었고 연파난 발생비율은 1.4∼l.69％에서 0.89∼0.94％로 감소하였으며, 18∼78주령에는 산난율은 74.5∼75.1％에서 77.8∼80.6％로 증가하였고, 산난지수는 302.0∼304.6개로 증가하였고, 연파난율은 1.54∼2.02％에서 0.98％ 내외로 감소하는 경향을 나타냈다. 4. 유색산난계에 대한 각 형질의 능력에 따른 21∼72주령의 연파난 발생비율과의 상관계수는 초산일령 0.3985, 난중 0.1072, 72주령 체중은 0.4225로 정의 상관을 나타냈으며, 산난율은 -0.5662, 산난지수는 -0.2896, 그리고 사료요구율과는 -0.245로 부의 상관을 나타냈다. 5. 유색산난계의 21∼78주령 각 형질의 능력에 따른 연파난 발생비율과의 상관계수는 초산 일령 0.3971, 난중 0.1171 그리고 78주령 체중은 0.4609의 정의 상관을 나타냈고, 산난율은 -0.5041, 산난지수는 -0.2372 그리고 사료요구율은 -0.2421로 부의 상관을 나타냈다.