Incidence of unabsorbed yolk sacs in broilers, broiler breeder roosters, white Leghorn hens, and Athens-Canadian randombred control broilers
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Unabsorbed yolk sacs are being investigated as a possible reservoir for internal Campylobacter and salmonellae contamination of processed poultry carcasses. However, it is unknown at what frequency that unabsorbed yolk sacs persist at the time of processing of broilers and spent breeders. Seven sets of 100 broiler carcasses (at 6 or 8 wk of age) were obtained from commercial processing plants. In addition, 100 52-wk-old broiler breeder males, 100 102-wk-old Leghorn hens, and 300 8-wk-old Athens-Canadian randombred control (ACRBC) broilers were euthanized, and their abdominal cavities were opened for determination of the presence of unabsorbed yolk sacs. Carcasses with obliterated yolk stalks or stalks with no detectable yolk material were categorized as normal. Those with unabsorbed yolk sacs were further separated into 2 groups: 1) attached by the yolk stalk to the small intestine or 2) unattached within the abdominal cavity. Yolk sacs were further classified by size: 1) small was <2 mm in diameter, 2) medium was 2 to 10 mm, and 3) large was >10 mm. From the 300 commercial broiler carcasses that were 6 wk old, 54% were categorized as normal with no detectable yolk sac, 35% had an unabsorbed yolk sac attached to the yolk stalk, and 12% had unattached yolk sacs. From the 400 commercial broiler carcasses that were 8 wk old, 49% of the carcasses were normal, 31% had attached unabsorbed yolk sacs, and 20% had unattached yolk sacs. From the 100 rooster carcasses sampled, 73% were normal, 8% had attached unabsorbed yolk sacs, and 19% had unattached yolk sacs. From the 100 White Leghorn hen carcasses sampled, 88% were normal, 8% had attached unabsorbed yolk sacs, and 4% were unattached yolk sacs. From the 300 ACRBC carcasses sampled, 76% were normal, 4% had attached unabsorbed yolk sacs, and 20% were unattached yolk sacs. The incidence of unabsorbed yolk sacs in present day commercial broilers appears twice as high as for mature roosters, hens, or ACRBC broilers.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".