Exposure to cold or heat during incubation on developmental stability of broiler embryos

Department of Animal Science, Ege University, Faculty of Agriculture, Izmir, Turkey. yalcin@ziraat.ege.edu.tr

An experiment was conducted to measure the effects of exposure to heat or cold during incubation on the size of skeletal bilateral traits (face, wings, shank, tibia, and femur) and weights of heart and lungs of broiler embryos. Measurements were obtained at 10 and 18 d of incubation and at hatch on d 21. Treatments consisted of eggs incubated at 37.8 degrees C throughout (control; C), cooled to 36.9 degrees C for 6 h daily from d 0 to 8 (C0-8), heated to 39.6 degrees C for 6 h daily from d 0 to 8 (H0-8), cooled to 21.0 degrees C for 24 h on d 14 (C14), cooled to 36.9 degrees C for 6 h daily from d 10 to 18 (C10-18), and heated to 39.6 degrees C for 6 h daily from d 10 to 18 (H10-18). Although cooling and heating of eggs during incubation influenced growth of the skeletal traits on d 10 and 18, compensation generally occurred by the time of hatch. The developmental stability of bilateral traits varied with the specific trait, with those observed earlier in incubation tending to decrease by hatch.

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