Table 2.

Effects of embryonic thermal manipulation (TM) on post-hatch body weight (BW) and cloacal temperature (T^C) of broiler chickens.

	Post-Hatch Day	Control	TM
TC (°C)	1	39.63 ± 0.24 a	39.48 ± 0.23 b
	37	39.05 ± 0.24 a	38.38 ± 0.22 b
BW (g)	1	44.2 ± 3.8 a	42.7 ± 2.8 a
	37	2302.8 ± 79.7 a	2440 ± 82.5 b

^a,b within the same row, means ± SD with non-identical superscripts are significantly different.