The transmission color value: A novel egg quality measure for recording shell color used for monitoring the stress and health status of a brown layer flock

Poultry Science

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 609-617

  Mertens, K ^a   Vaesen, I ^a   Loffel, J ^b   Kemps, B ^a   Kamers, B ^a   Perianu, C ^a   Zoons, J ^b   Darius, P ^a   Decuypere, E ^a   de Baerdemaeker, J ^a   de Ketelaere, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Provincial Centre for Applied Poultry Research   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Process monitoring; Shell color; Transmission color value; Visible near infrared transmission spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; EGG; EGG SHELL; FEMALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CHICKENS; EGG SHELL; EGGS; FEMALE; PIGMENTATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77951633586     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2009-00261     Document Type: Article

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