Poultry Eggs of India

Author/Editor :	Prafulla K. Mohanty, Yashaswi Nayak, Sujata Puspamitra
Pages :	195
Specialty :	Food Science
Book Type :	Academic & Professional

Poultry is a large sector where various people like farmers, rearers, breeders, planners, biologists, veterinarians, entrepreneurs and scientists are actively engaged. For the last five decades, people of many countries including India are attracted for the meat and eggs of poultry birds preferably chicken meat. Therefore, the production quantum of both poultry meat and egg is increased significantly in private and Government sector of India because of its nutritive value and affordability. Today, poultry sector is extended from chicken to Guinea fowl, goose, turkey, Japanese quail, duck and emu. Even, private entrepreneurs have come forward for the breeding and framing of big birds like emu successfully and effectively.

This book focuses on the eggs of different varieties of birds like nine breeds of chick such as White Leghorn, Kalinga Brown, Black Rock, Red Cornish, V2Chabro,Dehlem Red, Rhode Island Red (RIR), Vanaraja, Aseel, and Kadaknath, three breeds of duck such as White pekin, khaki Campbell and Native variety and others like goose, pigeon, Guinea fowl, Japanese quail, turkey and emu. Both physical as well as biochemical characteristics have been analysed and interpreted exhaustively. Various types along with the components of the eggs of all the stated forms and varieties are illustrated, explained and tabulated which speaks as to the components of the eggs.

It is believed that these analyses would throw light on the traits of eggs such as colour, texture,and chemical composition with nutritional value of the eggs of the available farmed poultry birds in India.

Constructive suggestions if any will be highly appreciated.

Dedication v
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

1.1 Poultry and its scenario 8
1.2 Poultry products and their uses 23
1.3 Review of literature 39

Chapter 2 Methods of Analyses 48

2.1 Study Site 48
2.2 Sampling 49
2.3 Methodology 66

Chapter 3 Results and Discussion 76

3.1 External characters of avian eggs 77
3.2 Internal characters of avian eggs 88
3.3 Chemical composition of eggs 115
3.4 Pearson’s coefficient correlation 132

Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusion 145

References 151
Glossary 167
Appendix 178
Index 18

Born on 01st March, 1958 at Puri, Odisha, Prof. Prafulla Kumar Mohanty obtains M.Sc., M.Phil. in 1980 and 1983, respectively in Zoology from the Utkal University and Ph.D. from the Sambalpur University in 1996. He has authored 32 books which include Dictionary, Glossary, Translated book, Text book, Book Chapter in Encyclopedia, Monograph and Popular science books. His field of research is tasar silk and cytogenetics and published 126 research papers. For his contribution in scientific research and science communication, he has received 12 awards from different organizations including state DST, Govt. Odisha. Immediately after M.Sc. degree, he joined the university service in 1981 and served the university for more than 36 years in the capacity of Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Professor, Head and Dean Faculty of Science. 31 Scholars are awarded Ph.D. degree under his supervision and at present 07 are engaged in the research. Currently, he is serving as the Vice Chancellor of Khallikote University, Berhampur, Odisha.

Dr. Yashaswi Nayak, born on 06th May, 1973, is serving as Associate Professor, Head of the Department, Zoology and Dean of School of Applied Sciences, Centurion University of Technology and Management (CUTM), Jatani, Odisha. She has completed her B.Sc. Zoology from the Pune University in 1994 and M.Sc., M.Ed. Life Science as an integrated course from the Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar, Utkal University in 1996. She has published 40 research papers in the journals of repute and was awarded Ph.D. degree from the Utkal University in 2014.

Dr. Sujata Puspamitra, born on 21st May, 1987, is an MSc in 2009 and MPhil in 2010 in Environmental Science from the Utkal and Fakir Mohan University, respectively. She has served as a Senior Research Fellow for three years in Indian Institute of Water Management (IIWM-ICAR), Bhubaneswar, Odisha under NAIP project. As a UGC RGNF Research Scholar at the Postgraduate Department of Zoology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751 004. She has published 22 research papers in various national and international journals.

Subject Category : Agricultural and Biological Sciences