Poultry production at all scales of operation is wholly dependent on the supply of day-old chicks. Fertility and hatchability are two major parameters that highly influence the supply of day-old chicks. Fertility refers to the percentage of incubated eggs that are fertile while hatchability is the percentage of fertile eggs that hatch. It is therefore important to understand the factors that in...

AIM This research was conducted to determine the most affecting parameters on hatchability of indigenous and improved local chickens' eggs. MATERIALS AND METHODS Five parameters were studied (fertility, early and late embryonic mortalities, shape index, egg weight, and egg weight loss) on four strains, namely Fayoumi, Alexandria, Matrouh, and Montazah. Multiple linear regression was performed...

An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of hatching egg size on hatchability and hatch-weight of indigenous Venda chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus). Three different egg size groups classified into small: (<49 g) medium: (50-59 g) and large:(60-69 g) were used in the experiment. A complete randomized design was used for the experiment. Simultaneously a quadratic type equation was u...

the experiment was carried out in poultry experimental station belonging to nrc, cairo, egypt. a total of 120 fayoumi layers, 45 weeks old, were randomly divided into four equal groups. each group included three replicates (10 hens in each). the first group was fed the control diet containing 3.3% gram ca, whereas, the other three received diets containing 2.8, 2.6 and 2.4% gram ca, respectivel...

the study was conducted to determine the effects of turkey (meleagris gallopavo)egg weight on certain egg traits and hatching performance. a total of 178 turkey eggs comprising of three different egg weight groups below 60 g (g i), 61 to 69 g (g ii) and above 70 g (g iii) were used for this study. average egg weight (g), egg length (cm), egg breadth (cm) and egg volume (cm3) values increased wi...

Aim: An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of egg weight on hatchability, embryonic deaths and hatchling weight of three rural breeds (Fayoumi, Desi and crossbred (Rhode Island Red X Fayoumi) chickens. Materials and Methods: Three different egg weight groups classified into small: (<41g), medium (41-45g) and large (> 45g) were used in the experiment. A complete randomized design w...

Genotype x environment (GxE) interactions can reduce the accuracy of a model to predict the performance of an animal and have an undesirable influence if not accounted for when estimating breeding values. Consequently, identification of these GxE is necessary when considering a turkey breeding program. Reranking based on the genetic prediction of turkey egg production, fertility, and hatchabili...

The effect of genetic strain (Ross 308; Cobb 500) and parent flock age (Ross at 32 and 36 weeks; Cobb at 26 and 44 weeks of age) on hatchability, fertile hatchability, Egg Weight Loss (EWL) and egg break out analysis were examined. At each flock age, 300 eggs from each treatment group were incubated. Thirty eggs from each treatment group were labeled individually for the measurements of Egg Wei...

A N I M A L breeders often select the extreme individuals in a population. This may conflict with natural selection for reproductive fitness. For example, chickens with intermediate body weights and egg weights usually have the highest hatchability. LATTER and ROBERTSON ( 1962) hypothesized that the decline in fitness with selection for a metric trait is a consequence of gene frequency changes ...