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Chick quality is initially influenced by the breeder and breeder house management through nutrition, properties of the egg, to how the eggs are managed before they reach the hatchery. The quality of the chick is also influenced by the incubational processes that the egg is subjected to altering potential quality. Chick quality at day of age is necessary for a good start in the broiler house and allows the broiler to attain its genetic potential. More important than the physical characteristics we use to assess chick quality is how the organ systems developed in the chick, which is difficult to assess in the day-old chick.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Methods of measuring chick quality typically used
- 3 Nutrients available to the developing embryo
- 4 Egg component characteristics
- 5 Influence of eggshell conductance on chick quality
- 6 Influence of egg size and breeder age on chick quality
- 7 Influence of egg storage on chick quality
- 8 Eggshell quality and its influence on chick quality
- 9 Egg contamination and egg sweating influence on chick quality
- 10 Influence of eggs set upside down for incubation and the resulting chick quality
- 11 Conclusion
- 12 References