Hatching Egg and Chick Quality KU Leuven
Increasing evidence shows that factors which can alter in the internal and external environment of the hatching egg have repercussions not only on embryonic development, hatchability and day-old-chick quality but most probably also on post-hatch growth performance. Incubation of fertile eggs, and thus embryonic development, takes place under specific conditions of turning, temperature, humidity and gaseous environment. In addition to these ...