Raquel Konrad Burin

INTRODUCTIONIn the United States, approximately 240 million commercial broiler eggs are set in incubators every week with an average hatchability of 80.3% (National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022). In 2007, it was estimated that an improvement of 1% would increase returns to more than $25 million for the hatcheries and further increase profits to the broiler production chain (Schaal and Ghe ...