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Increasing hatchability of turkey eggs with biotin egg injections
1United States Department of Agriculture, Avian Physiology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
Poultry Science
|September 1, 1987
Abstract:
At 25 days of incubation, eggs from Large White turkey hens in two field trials were injected with 87 micrograms of exogenous d-biotin per egg. Hatchability of fertile biotin-injected eggs was significantly higher than that of control (noninjected) eggs. Hatchability values of fertile eggs were 4 and 5% higher for exogenous d-biotin-injected eggs than for control eggs for December 1985 and May 1986 trials, respectively.