poultry products are highly influenced by how the consumer perceives the final product: the first factor is colour  - •it is said that “we eat with our eyes”  - •good pigmentation of chicken skin/shanks and egg yolks suggest  healthy animals  - •good colour levels are highly desired by consumers in Australia  - •the quality pigment products of Jabiru will enable optimum pigmentation to be achieved in the most cost-effective manner

Do you need assistance with your pigmentation program?

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Chickens and Eggs

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Jabiru Pigments

 - Jabiru Red 10%

 - Jabiru Red Natural
Product Availability
   - Liquid Products
   - Dry Products
Feed Phosphates
Egg Packaging Material
Poultry Equipment
Feedmill Equipment
 

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sales or technical staff

for assistance with your

pigmentation program.

Pigmentation of Poultry for Chickens and Eggs

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What quantities of pigments are needed?


the amounts of red and yellow pigments to use depend on the amount of corn in the feed, and the depth of colour required

larger amounts of pigments, especially red, are required to achieve high colour scores

the following tables provide guidelines for the quantities to use

note that the very small amounts of these pigments require premixing before addition to the mixer

Achieving yolk fan scores for chicken eggs

Corn

 JABIRU

Fan score required
% product 9-10 10-11 11-12 12-13 13-14(1) 14-15(1)  
0 Yellow(2) 200 200 250 300 300 300
  Red 15 20 25 35 45 55
20 Yellow 150 150 150 200 200 250
  Red 15 20 25 35 45 55
40 Yellow 100 100 100 125 150 175
  Red 15 20 25 35 45 50
60 Yellow

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 50 75 100 100
  Red 15 20 25 35 45 55

 

(1) normally these fan scores would be for duck eggs only
(2) all requirements are expressed as grams/t feed
 

Egg yolk pigmentation 

 

Fan scores required

(1) normally these fan scores would be for duck eggs only
(2) all requirements are expressed as grams/t feed

 

Broiler skin/shank pigmentation

Corn

 JABIRU

Broiler skin / shank colour
% product Low Medium High Very High  
0 Yellow(1) 1250 2200 2500 3500  
  Red 10 20 35 60
20 Yellow 1000 2000 2500 3200
  Red 10 20 35 60
40 Yellow 1000 1750 2000 3000
  Red 10 20 35 60
60 Yellow

750

1500

 1800 2750
  Red 10 20 35 60

(1) all requirements are expressed as grams/t feed

 

Broiler skin/shank pigmentation

(1) all requirements are expressed as grams/t feed
 

 

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•pigments in common ingredients used for feed in Australia do not normally contain sufficient carotenoids to give the colours of egg yolks or skin/shanks that are desired by consumers - •for example a corn-based layer diet will produce eggs with a fan score of about 7-8, which is a pale yellow  - •supplementation of these diets with pigments will allow the required colours to be achieved  - •colour is best established by application of good quality  stable pigments