Egg Shell Quality Poster - V1-1

20 COMMON EGG SHELL
QUALITY PROBLEMS
The process of egg
formation in a hen’s
oviduct and the time
an egg spends in
each section
Pale-shelled Eggs Lilac Eggs/Pink Dirty Eggs Blood Stained Eggs Shell-less Eggs Soft-shelled Eggs Cracks
The degree of brown Eggs If the egg shell is stained Usually from pullets in early Laid without a shell Laid with an incomplete This problem includes hair
color in the eggshell is by feces, it is important lay, eggs are contaminated
determined by the quality
The egg appears to be
pink or lilac due to the to avoid feed ingredients by smears of blood from
layer, these eggs are
protected only by the shell
shell, only a thin layer of
calcium is deposited on the
line cracks, star cracks, or
large cracks that result in a OVARY (left)
ofdeposited pigment in
the cuticle.
association between the which cause wet and sticky
droppings.
a prolapsed cloaca, vent
pecking, or cannibalism.
membrane. shell membrane. hole in the shell. The ovulation process,
cuticle and an extra calcium Causes: Causes:
Causes: layer. Causes: Causes:
Causes:
• Immature shell gland • Excessive phosphorus • Heat stress
begins with the release of
• Infectious bronchitis
• Bird age (older hen) Causes: • Wet droppings • Overweight pullets • Disease: AvianInfluenza consumption • Saline water the yolk (or ova) into the left
• Large amounts of • Pullets cominginto lay
• High stress in the flock • Stress
indigestible compounds in • Sudden, large increases
NDV,infectious bronchitis, • Heat stress
• Bird age (older hen)
• Bird age (older hen)
• Inadequate nutrition:
oviduct.
• Excess calcium in the feed Egg Drop Syndrome 76
• Egg Drop Syndrome 76 the feed in day length • Saline water Calcium and vitamin D3
• Inadequate nutrition:
• Use of chemotherapeutic • Poor gut health • Poor hygiene: Cage, trays, • Mycotoxins • Mycotoxins
agents (i.e. sulfonamides • Electrolyte imbalance/ belt pick-up system
Calcium,phosphorus,
manganese, or vitamin D3 INFUNDIBULUM
and nicarbazin) saline water
The yolk is captured and
the formation of the
perivitelline membrane and
chalazae occurs. In breeder
birds, fertilization occurs in
this section.
15 minutes
Corrugated Eggs Wrinkled Eggs Pimpled Eggs Calcium Coated Calcium Deposits White/Brown MAGNUM
Characterized by a very Eggs with thinly creased Classified by small lumps Eggs These eggs are classified by Speckled The egg white protein
rough, corrugated surface, and wrinkled surfaces. of calcified material on the An extra layer of calcium white, irregularly shaped With smaller speckles than (albumen) is produced
these eggs are produced
whenplumping is not
Causes: egg shell, the severity of
pimples depends on the
can be seen all over the
egg or on just one end.
spots deposited on the
external surface of the
calcium deposits, these
eggs may be laid down
TUBULAR SHELL here.
• Stress 3 hours
controlled andterminated.
• Infectious bronchitis foreign material present
during the calcification Causes:
shell. before or after the cuticle GLAND
Causes:
• Heat stress
• Defective shell gland
process. • Defective shell gland Causes:
is formed. A process called
• Overcrowding Causes:
• Saline water Causes:
• Disturbances during
• Disturbances during “plumping” occurs
• Bird age (older hen) • Bird age
calcification
• Excess calcium in the diet calcification
• Disturbances during where water rich ISTHMUS
• Poor nutrition, especially
calcium and vitamin D3
• Strain of bird
• Inadequate nutrition
• Excess calcium in the diet calcification with electrolytes The isthmus produces
• Excess calcium in the diet
• Mycotoxins enters the albumen the fibers that make
and the formation of up the inner and outer
the mammilary cores shell membranes.
commence. 1 hour
5 hours
SHELL GLAND VAGINA/

POUCH CLOACA
The egg shell is formed The egg is laid via this
and the pigmentation section.
Mottled Shells Body-Checked Broken and Misshapen Eggs White Banded Slab-sided Eggs process occurs. 1 minute
When placed in front of a Eggs Mended These eggs are too small Eggs The second egg that enters
If two eggs come into the shell gland pouch is not
15 hours
light, the translucent areas The egg is cracked in the A diagonal break occurs or large, round instead of
appear mottled or glassy as shell gland pouch and then during formation and is oval, or differ from normal contact with each other as complete as the first egg
a result of the shell’s failure repaired before lay. mended again before lay. shapes. in the shell gland pouch, and is flattened where the
to dry out quickly. normal calcification is eggs made contact.
Causes: Causes: Causes: interrupted. The first egg Causes:
Causes: • Incorrect lighting • Stress during calcification • Immature shell gland
retained in the pouch • Stress
• High humidity in the shed • Stress • Disease: AvianInfluenza
will have an extra layer of • Changes in lighting
• Disease and mycotoxins • Bird age (olderhen) NDV,infectious bronchitis,
calcium seen as the white • Disease Acknowledgement: Some information has been extracted from the
• Manganese deficiency • Overcrowding Egg Drop Syndrome 76
band marking. book “Egg Shell Quality Problems: Causes and Solutions” published
• Overcrowding • Stress
• Overcrowding Causes: by University of New England, Australia. We thank the Australia Egg
• Stress Corporation Limited and the University of New England for their
• Changes in lighting
permission to use the oviduct photo. Alltech.com /AlltechNaturally @Alltech

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