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Percentage of eggs with blood spots, meat spots, and shell cracks.
| Egg defects | Genotype/breed1 |
Significance |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hybrid | Amarela | Branca | Pedrês | Preta | Chi-square | P(F) | |
| Blood spots | 12.50 | 15.63 | 8.20 | 20.90 | 23.88 | 6.270 | 0.099 |
| Meat spots | 4.17 | 18.75 | 22.95 | 23.88 | 31.34 | 2.943 | 0.401 |
| Shell cracks | 0.00 | 1.54 | 6.78 | 0.00 | 1.49 | 7.130 | 0.068 |
Eggs from commercial hybrid genotype (n = 24) and Amarela (n = 67), Branca (n = 67), Pedrês Portuguesa (n = 61), and Preta Lusitânica (n = 67) breeds.
