Sentence examples for chick quality from inspiring English sources
For breeders, egg weight has been reported to affect chick quality including hatching weight, fitness and performance [ 7, 8].
Problems with equipment maintenance, incubator cooling, airflow patterns and other conditions may cause embryos to overheat or cool down, to become overhydrated or dehydrated, negatively affecting hatchability and reducing chick quality.
The harsh tropical climate and severe disease outbreaks, poor biosecurity, sub-minimal vaccination and treatment protocols, poor management practices, poor chick quality, feed-associated causes, and unintended accidents oftentimes aggravate mortality and negatively affect egg production.
Other factors including severe disease outbreaks, poor biosecurity, sub-minimal vaccination and treatment protocols, poor management, practices, poor chick quality, feed-associated causes, and unintended errors and accidents similarly influence production [ 1].
More than 50%% of the farms had poor performance in its two previous grow-outs (P < 0.05), reported that the day-old-chick quality were poor in the affected flock (P < 0.01) and had unsubstantiated evidence that the chicks were sourced from breeder flocks which had been reported with high mortalities resembling ND (P < 0.05).
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"We need more studies to clarify which is more important for grassquit mothers when deciding how much to invest in their chicks: the quality of their partners as dads or their attractiveness as partners, which can be inherited by the male offspring," Mr Diniz said.
The problem is that the companies also control these rankings through decisions they make about the age and health of the chicks and the quality of the feed they provide to the growers, leaving them unable to compete on anything like a playing field.
When selection is initiated, the late maturing females have not started laying yet or produce eggs that are too small to hatch good quality chicks.
I had a grower tell me that he was complaining to company personnel about the quality of chicks he received and the answer he got was, "You know, you should just be glad you got a job".
In developing countries, however, adoption of this type of production has been limited because of the costs of infrastructures to maintain biosecurity for birds, quality hybrid chicks, balanced feed, biologics, and quality veterinary care (3 ).
