Table 3.
Effect of chicken breed on hatching performance
Breeds | Fertility (%) | Hatchability of fertile eggs (%) | Embryonic mortality (%) | Dead inshelled eggs (%) |
Early | Middle | Late |
Hwanggalsaek Jaeraejong | 90.3±5.1a | 74.8±14.3a | 8.6±6.3b | 1.1±2.0 | 10.0±10.2 | 5.6±6.8 |
Kor. Rhode | 85.1±8.7b | 65.5±16.9b | 17.3±12.2a | 1.8±2.7 | 10.1±8.3 | 5.4±5.3 |
Kor. Leghorn | 93.2±4.6a | 78.4±9.8a | 9.2±8.1b | 1.6±2.1 | 6.9±5.1 | 3.9±4.1 |
Means | 89.5±7.2 | 72.9±15.0 | 11.7±10.0 | 1.5±2.3 | 9.0±8.3 | 5.0±5.6 |
The different superscripts within column significantly differ.