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Egg sp ilage & Inspection of egg

White, speckled (red), and brown


chicken eggs
Ostrich egg (right), compared to chicken egg
(lower left) and quail eggs (upper left)
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Internal egg quality detections
Preservation of egg
Other egg preservation methods
• Lime water method
• Pickling of eggs with silicate of soda
• Oil treatment
• Gas treatment
• Fresh heat treatment/Thermo stabilization
• Cold storage
• Preservation by drying
Detection of egg spoilage
Sign of egg spoilage
Bacterial spoilage:- rot
1.green rot- psychrohite
2.black rot- aeromones
3.Yellow rot-E.coli
4. red rot-serratia
Fungal spoilage:- spot
1. Blue- pen cilium
2. Black- clamdosporium
egg with a small blood spot
Four-day-old turkey embryo (fertile)
Positive development (PD)
Infertile incubated egg.The blast disc is a small,
light spot surrounded by a cloudlike fuzzy area
of irregular shape.
Infertile (right) and blastoderm without
embryo (BWE) - chicken.
Egg inspection Methods
Eye Visualization
A raw chicken egg with the shell
removed by soaking in vinegar
Candling
Inspection by using hand lens
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