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Effect of Egg Storage Duration and Turning during Storage on Hatchability

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  • 1. Nepal Polytechnic Institute, Purbanchal University
  • 2. Institute of Agriculture and Animal science, Tribhuvan University

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Commercial hatcheries often store eggs before incubation, and one method used to enhance hatchability is egg turning during this storage period. This study focuses on exploring how egg storage affects egg weight changes and how turning during storage can impact chick hatching. The experiment involved assessing the influence of storage duration and egg turning on egg quality, hatchability, and residual analysis. Researchers gathered 420 hatching eggs from a 55-week-old commercial Cobb500 breeder flock and stored them according to different treatment conditions. The experiment was designed using a completely randomized 3×2 factorial design, incorporating three different storage periods (3, 8, and 13 days) and the practice of egg turning (180° rotations once daily) or no turning during storage. This design resulted in six distinct treatment groups. The stored eggs were then incubated to hatch, and various parameters such as chick weights were recorded, along with calculating the hatchability rate. The association between weight changes across different storage periods was determined using a paired t-test, while categorical variables and the difference in hatchability outcomes were assessed using the Pearson chi-square test at a 95% confidence level, using SPSS version 23.0. The results showed a significant difference in egg weight between the different storage durations, both with egg turning and without (P<0.001). During the incubation period, there was a significant difference in egg weight among all treatments (P<0.001). Fertile hatchability was highest (92%) for eggs stored for 3 days with turning, while it was slightly lower in the non-turning condition and in eggs stored for 8 days, under both turning and non-turning conditions. As the storage period increased to 13 days without turning, hatchability decreased to 72%, accompanied by an increase in embryonic death. However, when turning was implemented, the results were similar to those of the 8-day storage period. Additionally, there were no significant differences in chick weights among eggs from the three different storage periods (P>0.05).

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