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Improving Egg Shell Strength During Late Production Period of Hens Fed Diets Supplemented with Different Vitamin D Forms and Levels

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Physiology & Animal Nutrition

Abstract

Egg shell breakage causes an economic loss for egg producer, where 3% of the eggs laid produced with cracked shells or broken. This experiment was carried out to improve eggshell quality of eggs produced from aged chickens.  Golden Montazah chickens that reached 11 month of age with average weight 1.45kg were randomly divided into nine groups . Groups one, two and three  fed on control basal diets  with zero levels of hydroxycholecaliferol (25-OHD3) and three levels from vitamin D3 (VD3) (2500, 3750 and 5000 IU) respectively  , groups four, five and six fed on  0.04 mg∕kg of hydroxycholecaliferol (25-OHD3) and three levels from vitamin D3 (VD3) (2500, 3750 and 5000 IU) respectively, groups seven , eight and nine fed on  0.08 mg∕kg of hydroxycholecaliferol (25-OHD3) and three levels from vitamin D3 (VD3) (2500, 3750 and 5000 IU), respectively. The effect of supplemented layers diet with different forms and levels of vitamin D on mechanical, ultrastructure and chemical properties of eggshell during a late laying stage were tested. The results indicated that supplementing layer diets with 0.8 mg/kg hydroxycholecalciferol improved eggshell strength and ultrastructure of eggshell; moreover increased calcium contains eggshell and longer effective thickness (palsied layer) at the late stage of laying hens. The increasing total content of VD forms up to 0.13375 mg/kg diet causes an increase in the total amount of shell mass-produced by the hen, nevertheless other shell parameters didn't adversely affect. In contrast, increasing the total content of VD sources mg/kg diet than the previous limit did not attain desirable achievement. The results recommend that adding 25 hydroxycholecalciferol at 0.8 mg/kg to avoid the deteriorating quality of eggshells at late ages of laying hens and avoid loss economic due to poor eggshell quality.

DOI

10.21608/ejvs.2024.296251.2159

Keywords

aged chicken, Eggshell, Ultrastructure, Vitamin D

Authors

First Name

Sabbah

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

Farouk

Affiliation

Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

Email

sabbah.farouk@yahoo.com

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fayiom

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First Name

Lamiaa

Last Name

Radwan

MiddleName

Mostafa

Affiliation

Department of Poultry Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

lamia_radwan@agr.asu.edu.eg

City

cairo

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First Name

Hassan

Last Name

A. H. Abd El-Halim

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-

Affiliation

Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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First Name

Doaa

Last Name

M. M. Yassein

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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First Name

Inas

Last Name

Ismail

MiddleName

Ibrahim

Affiliation

Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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drinas53@hotmail.com

City

Dokki

Orcid

0000-0001-8196-0713

First Name

Manal

Last Name

S. Mohamed

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-

Affiliation

Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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First Name

Abeir

Last Name

A. Eshera1

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-

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Animal Production Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Giza, Egypt

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Receive Date

2024-06-08

Publish Date

2024-09-29

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1

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10

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1110-0222

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2357-089X

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140

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Egyptian Journal of Veterinary Sciences

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Improving Egg Shell Strength During Late Production Period of Hens Fed Diets Supplemented with Different Vitamin D Forms and Levels

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23 Dec 2024