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The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry

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  • Ondulla Toomer

    (Food Science & Market Quality Handling Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

  • Thien Vu

    (Food Science & Market Quality Handling Research Unit, ARS, USDA, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

  • Rebecca Wysocky

    (Prestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

  • Vera Moraes

    (Prestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

  • Ramon Malheiros

    (Prestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

  • Kenneth Anderson

    (Prestige Department of Poultry Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA)

Abstract

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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  • Ondulla Toomer & Thien Vu & Rebecca Wysocky & Vera Moraes & Ramon Malheiros & Kenneth Anderson, 2021. "The Effect of Feeding Hens a Peanut Skin-Containing Diet on Hen Performance, and Shell Egg Quality and Lipid Chemistry," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-13, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jagris:v:11:y:2021:i:9:p:894-:d:637805
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    1. Kari L. Harding & Thien Vu & Rebecca Wysocky & Ramon Malheiros & Kenneth E. Anderson & Ondulla T. Toomer, 2021. "The Effects of Feeding a Whole-in-Shell Peanut-Containing Diet on Layer Performance and the Quality and Chemistry of Eggs Produced," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-14, November.

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