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Regular access to fresh or high-quality dehydrated green feed helps birds to produce eggs with a
uniform yellow yolk. Yellow maize, alfalfa meal, and fresh grass provide good pigment sources
for a normal yellowish-orange yolk colour.
(d) Management. Good general management of the laying flock can improve egg quality. If birds
are treated correctly and not put under conditions of stress they will produce properly.
(e) Disease control. Diseases have an effect on egg quality. Infectious bronchitis and Newcastle
disease, for example, will cause birds to lay eggs with poor quality shells and with extremely poor
quality albumen. Many of the birds continue to lay poor quality eggs even after recovery.
Effective vaccines should be administered.
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