H. van den Brand

TL;DR: Chicks that hatched from eggs incubated at low EST during wk 1 of incubation had lower rectal temperature after hatching, especially under low housing temperatures, and this effect lasted until 7 d posthatch in batch 1, and the highest rectal temperatures were always found in chicks incubation at 37.8 degrees C EST constantly throughout incubation.

TL;DR: It is concluded that it is more difficult to maintain constant external and internal egg quality in an outdoor housing system than in a battery cage system.

TL;DR: Results demonstrate that energy partitioning between milk and body tissue can be altered by feeding isocaloric diets differing in lipogenic and glucogenic nutrient content.

TL;DR: If embryo development is reflected by HP, it can be concluded that high EST primarily increased embryonic development until the second week of incubation, when O(2) had a greater effect in determining embryo development than EST.

TL;DR: The surplus availability of nutrients in large eggs was held responsible for the absolute and relative higher weight of RY in chicks that hatched from large eggs compared with small eggs.