THE STUDY OF SOME PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF OSTRICH EGGS IN ANBAR GOVERNORATE | ||
| IRAQ JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE | ||
| Article 1, Volume 19, Issue 4, July 2014, Pages 0-0 | ||
| Authors | ||
| F. K. Ibraheem; S. M. Manfy; G. A. Abdulkhudhur; S. A. Agmy | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Forty two ostrich eggs were collected from ostrich Struthio camelus Farm in the Aldawar research station, to investigate the physical characteristics of ostrich eggs and considered. Studied traits were: egg weight, egg length, egg width, egg shape, pore number/cm2 (shell porosity), shell weight, shell color, shell thickness, shell %, yolk height (mm), yolk diameter (cm), yolk index, albumin height, albumin index, surface area of an egg (cm2) and Hugh unit. Results showed that the averages of egg weight: 1348 g, egg length: 15.27 cm, egg width: 12.45 cm, Index egg: 81.75, shell thickness: 2.04 mm, shell weight: 289.12 g, shell%: 21.71%, the number of pores: 18:55 pores / cm2, shell color: 1.48 (52.38% of the color cream and 47.62% for color dark cream, without significant difference), surface area of an egg: 557.81 cm2, yolk height : 2.09 cm, diameter yolk: 13.40 cm , yolk index: 15.00, albumin height: 0.95 cm, albumin index: 54.96 and Hugh Unit: 2.91. There was no significant difference between the areas of the egg (narrow, middle and wide region) in the thickness of the shell and the number of pores/cm2. | ||
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