Studies on the extraction of protein from poultry feathers and their analysis results

Аннотация

Poultry farming is one of the most developed industries, and it is very important to operate the industry completely without waste. More than 20,000 chickens are slaughtered in poultry factories per month. Taking into account that on average 100 grams of feathers are extracted from one chicken, the main goal is to extract keratin protein by processing more than 2 tons of chicken feathers per month. During the research, my method of extracting protein from feathers will be discussed. In addition, determination of the amount of nitrogen in the protein isolated by a special method, determination of the total protein and amino acids are discussed. In the results section, it was found that 25% dry mass was extracted, it contained 17 different amino acids. It was concluded that chicken feather protein can be used for cosmetics based on theoretical comparisons with keratin protein. Hair is composed mainly of keratin protein and a small amount of lipid. Keywords: Keratin, Protein, Feathers, Amino acids, Chicken feather, Feather protein.