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    Incubation conditions affect chick quality and broiler performance
    (Uludağ Üniversitesi, 2013-11-28) Sözcü, Arda; Aydın, İpek; Ziraat Fakültesi; Zootekni Bölümü
    Chick quality has gained increasingly more importance for profitable production because of pervading broiler production around the world. There is a critical relationship between the day old chick quality and posthatch broiler performance. The chick quality is affected by incubation conditions during embryonic development stage and after hatching it reflects significantly subsequent performance during rearing period. To estimate of hatchery success, good quality saleable chick percentage is more important than hatchability. Because they are paid based on chick sales. Incubation conditions such as temperature, humidity, ventilation and turning should be provided as optimum standards to meet embryo requirements during development stage. All of these conditions influence embryonic development, chick hatching weight and in this way posthatch growth performance. Recently, some researchers have showed that especially incubation temperature is the most critical factor affecting hatchability, hatchling quality and also subsequent performance. In this review, about temperature, relative humidity, ventilation and turning requirements of embryos during incubation period and their effects on chick quality and broiler performance are discussed.