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Effects of breeder age on embryonic development, hatching results, chick quality, and growing performance of the slow-growing genotype.
Poultry science - 1 Dec 2020
Machado Juliana P, Mesquita Mariana A, Café Marcos B, Assis Saullo D, Veríssimo Saulo, Santos Raphael R, Leandro Nadja S M, Araújo Itallo C S
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The present study aimed to ascertain the effects of slow-growing breeder age on embryo development, incubation results, and chick quality and of the interaction between breeder age and hatching time on initial performance. A total of 630 hatching eggs obtained from a commercial flock of slow-growing broiler breeders (Isa Label Naked Neck) were evaluated in 2 experiments. The first experiment evaluated embryo...
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