This study evaluated the effects on the internal quality of eggs of various storage environments through which eggs may pass between being laid and being consumed. Commercial eggs (N = 648) from Dekalb White hens were used. Treatments consisted of T1: 28 days at 4 °C; T2: 28 days at 20 °C; T3: 7 days at room temperature (27 °C ± 2 °C) (humidity 55%) and 21 days at 4 °C; T4: 7 days at room temperature and 21 days at 20 °C; T5: 14 days at room temperature and 14 days at 4 °C; T6: 14 days at room temperature and 14 days at 20 °C; T7: 21 days at room temperature and 7 days at 4 °C; T8: 21 days at room temperature and 7 days at 20 °C; and T9: 28 days at room temperature. The characteristics that were evaluated consisted of Haugh unit (HU), yolk index (YI), colour (L*, a* and b*), albumen pH, yolk pH and lipid oxidation. Eggs stored 28 days were darker (L*), and had greater yolk pH and lipid oxidation than fresh eggs. Eggs stored under T1 and T3 conditions had greater HU and YI than eggs stored in the other environments. The albumin pH of eggs stored at room temperature (T9) was highest of the treatments. Yellowness was increased in eggs stored under T4, T6, T8, and T9 conditions. Eggs should be stored under refrigeration as this promotes maintenance of internal quality and mitigates negative effects of previous storage conditions.

Avaliaram-se o desempenho e o rendimento de carcaça e partes de frangos de corte alimentados com dietas que continham selênio, zinco e manganês complexados ou não a moléculas orgânicas, criados em diferentes temperaturas. Foram utilizados 980 pintinhos machos de um dia de idade, de linhagem comercial, criados durante 42 dias em três câmaras climáticas, que proporcionaram temperaturas alta, termoneutra e baixa. Foi utilizado um delineamento inteiramente ao acaso, em esquema fatorial 3x2+1, sendo três temperaturas de criação, duas fontes de Se, Zn e Mn - inorgânica e orgânica, mais o tratamento testemunha - criação em câmara termoneutra sem adição de Se, Zn e Mn na ração, com sete repetições por tratamento. As aves criadas em condições de estresse térmico apresentaram piores resultados para consumo de ração, ganho de peso e viabilidade, sendo mais sensíveis ao calor do que ao frio. Quando criadas em ambientes quentes, a conversão alimentar foi melhor quando se utilizaram os minerais na forma orgânica. Sob temperatura neutra, as aves não necessitaram da suplementação da dieta com os minerais avaliados.

The performance and carcass yield of broilers fed supplemented diets with different selenium, zinc and manganese sources (organic and inorganic) and reared under different environmental temperatures were evaluated. A total of 980 one-day-old broilers were reared until 42 days of age. Three climatic chambers (high, neutral and low temperatures) and twenty chickens per pen, distributed in a 3x2 + 1 factorial arrangement with three breeding temperatures, two mineral sources and a control treatment that provided neutral temperature without mineral supplementation, with seven replicates each were used. The thermal stressed broilers showed lower results for feed intake, weight gain and viability, mainly under high temperature. The organic mineral utilization provided a better feed conversion ratio when high temperature was tested. Mineral supplementation under neutral breeding temperature was not necessary.