Table 4.
Effect of age at photostimulation on fertility and hatching efficiency of White Leghorn breeder hens at 50 wk of age.
Item | Age at photostimulation (wk) |
SEM | P-value | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
16 | 18 | 20 | 22 | |||
Fertility, % | 97.83 | 98.75 | 97.62 | 96.00 | 1.07 | 0.90 |
Hatchability of fertile eggs, % | 71.33 | 88.94 | 84.66 | 90.68 | 3.39 | 0.14 |
Hatchability, % | 69.65b | 87.85a | 82.51a | 86.86a | 2.98 | 0.04 |
Data are the mean of 2 replicates.
Values within a row with different superscripts differ significantly at P < 0.05.