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Assessment of External and Internal Quality Traits of Eggs of Wild Double-spurred Francolinus Pternistic bicalcaratus sourced from three States in Nigeria

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  • Muideen Alade Yisau

    (Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria)

  • Oluyinka Akinbanjo Akintunde

    (Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria)

  • Opemipo Alaba Ijose

    (University of North Texas, USA)

  • Timothy Olawale Sanni

    (Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria)

  • Israel Oluyinka Oloyede Osunsina

    (Federal University of Agriculture, Nigeria)

  • Akinwale Ridwan Oladimeji

    (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Abstract

This research experiment was carried out to examine egg parameters of wild Double-spurred francolin eggs sourced from three different states. A total of 27 eggs from three states were used in evaluating internal and external traits quality of the wild eggs which components of their internal and external parameters were measured. Collected data was subjected to One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Among the states, egg quality parameters were significantly different relative to yolk width and albumen index (p≤0.05) while the egg morphometric parameters relative to egg width (p≤0.01) and egg weight (p≤0.05). Results of Pearson’s correlation coefficients showed significant association (p≤0.05) between egg weight and different external and internal egg quality parameters. This study concluded that wild Double-spurred eggs will be best sourced in Ogun state if domestication objective is based on quality of eggs and best source in Oyo State and Osun state if the objective is on Morphometric parameters.

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Handle: RePEc:epw:zoolog:v:2:y:2023:i:1:id:421
DOI: 10.24018/ejzoo.2023.2.1.21
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