Because of the growing interest in

Because of the growing interest in consumption of quail eggs in our country,
and due to the lack of recent investigations in this direction, the aim of this paper was
to enhance the knowledge on the quality of quail eggs, and to show the quality of quail
eggs in our surroundings. In this study, external and internal quality traits of quail eggs
from two different commercial farms will be presented.
Materials and methods
The investigation of egg quality traits was carried out at the Department of
Animal Science of the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad. The experimental material
comprised eggs of Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) of laying type in their
first year of production taken from two commercial farms near Novi Sad. The quails in
all three farms are kept in battery-cages. Examination of egg quality parameters was
carried out on the random sample of 30 eggs per producer. The following egg quality
traits (external and internal) were assessed:
Egg weight (g), yolk weight (g), albumen weight (g) and shell weight (g) were
measured with analytic scale with 0.01 g accuracy.