Vol. 12, Special Issue 10 (2023)

Author(s):
Surendra Singh, Dr. Siddhartha Mishra, Pawan Acharya, Dashrath Singh Chundawat and Gaurav Singh

Abstract:
The present experimentation was conducted at Animal farm, Department of Animal Production, Rajasthan College of Agriculture Udaipur. One hundred eighty eggs was collected from four different chicken breeds (40 week old) were used in 4 treatments with 3 replications, each consisting of 45 eggs. The treatments were (T₁) Kadaknath, (T₂) RIR, (T₃) Mewari, (T₄) Pratapdhan. In this experiment internal egg quality traits were measured to comparison of indigenous and improved chicken breeds. Results showed that the highest albumin weight was found to be highest (p<0.05) in RIR (33.36g) followed by Pratapdhan (29.60g), Kadaknath (27.15g) and the lowest albumin weight was found in Mewari (25.41g). The haugh unit was found to be higher (p<0.05) in RIR (75.78) as compared to rest of breeds. The difference in haugh unit between Kadaknath and Pratapdhan were small and statistically non- significant and lowest haugh unit was found in Mewari. Maximum yolk weight was found in RIR (17.70g) followed by Pratapdhan (15.99g) and the minimum yolk weight was found in Kadaknath (12.27g) and Mewari (12.03g). It may be concluded that the internal egg quality traits were significantly higher in improved chicken germplasm namely RIR and Pratapdhan as compared to indigenous chicken.