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Low temperature effects on embryonic development and hatch time.
Poultry science - 1 Jul 1996
Suarez M E, Wilson H R, McPherson B N, Mather F B, Wilcox C J
Abstract excerpt
A series of experiments was conducted to estimate phenotypic correlations between incubation characteristics, and to evaluate the effects of cold stress and genotype during incubation on chick weight, egg weight loss, hatching time, and embryonic mortality. Eggs were cooled at 18 or 24 C, for 12, 24, 36, 48, or 72 h beginning on Day 8, 12, 14, 16, or 18 of incubation. Other eggs were cooled intermittently for 6 h...
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