The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry
Peanut skins are a considerable waste product with little current economic value or use. We aimed to determine the dietary effects of peanut skins on layer production performance and egg quality and chemistry of the eggs produced. Two hundred commercial hens were randomly assigned to four treatments...
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| author | Ondulla Toomer Thien Vu Rebecca Wysocky Vera Moraes Ramon Malheiros Kenneth Anderson |
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| description | Peanut skins are a considerable waste product with little current economic value or use. We aimed to determine the dietary effects of peanut skins on layer production performance and egg quality and chemistry of the eggs produced. Two hundred commercial hens were randomly assigned to four treatments (five replicates) and fed ad libitum for 8 weeks: conventional control diet, diet containing 24% high-oleic peanut (HOPN), diet containing 3% peanut skin (PN Skin), and a diet with 2.5% oleic acid (OA). Hens fed the HOPN diet had significantly reduced body weights relative to the control and PN Skin treatments, producing fewer total eggs over the 8-week experimental period. Eggs weights were similar between the control and PN Skin treatments at weeks 2 and 4, while eggs from the PN Skin treatment group were heavier than other treatments at weeks 6 and 8 of the experiment. Eggs produced from the HOPN treatment had reduced saturated fatty acid (FA) content in comparison to the other treatment groups, while similar between PN Skin and control eggs at week 8 of the experiment. This study suggests that PN skins may be a suitable alternative layer feed ingredient. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b369dd23868543bdb56df327b76eff992023-11-22T11:36:15ZengMDPI AGAgriculture2077-04722021-09-0111989410.3390/agriculture11090894The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid ChemistryOndulla Toomer0Thien Vu1Rebecca Wysocky2Vera Moraes3Ramon Malheiros4Kenneth Anderson5Food Science & Market Quality Handling Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAFood Science & Market Quality Handling Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAPrestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAPrestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAPrestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAPrestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAPeanut skins are a considerable waste product with little current economic value or use. We aimed to determine the dietary effects of peanut skins on layer production performance and egg quality and chemistry of the eggs produced. Two hundred commercial hens were randomly assigned to four treatments (five replicates) and fed ad libitum for 8 weeks: conventional control diet, diet containing 24% high-oleic peanut (HOPN), diet containing 3% peanut skin (PN Skin), and a diet with 2.5% oleic acid (OA). Hens fed the HOPN diet had significantly reduced body weights relative to the control and PN Skin treatments, producing fewer total eggs over the 8-week experimental period. Eggs weights were similar between the control and PN Skin treatments at weeks 2 and 4, while eggs from the PN Skin treatment group were heavier than other treatments at weeks 6 and 8 of the experiment. Eggs produced from the HOPN treatment had reduced saturated fatty acid (FA) content in comparison to the other treatment groups, while similar between PN Skin and control eggs at week 8 of the experiment. This study suggests that PN skins may be a suitable alternative layer feed ingredient.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/9/894alternative layer feed ingredientpeanut skinshigh-oleic peanutsshell eggslayerspoultry feeding trial |
| spellingShingle | Ondulla Toomer Thien Vu Rebecca Wysocky Vera Moraes Ramon Malheiros Kenneth Anderson The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry Agriculture alternative layer feed ingredient peanut skins high-oleic peanuts shell eggs layers poultry feeding trial |
| title | The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry |
| title_full | The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry |
| title_fullStr | The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry |
| title_short | The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry |
| title_sort | effect of feeding hens a peanut skin containing diet on hen performance and shell egg quality and lipid chemistry |
| topic | alternative layer feed ingredient peanut skins high-oleic peanuts shell eggs layers poultry feeding trial |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0472/11/9/894 |
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