Relationship between hatchling length and weight on later productive performance in broilers

Roos Molenaar‡, Inge Reijrink‡, Ron Meijerhof‡ and Henry van den Brand*

‡HatchTech BV, Gildetrom 25, 3900 AG Veenendaal, The Netherlands, *Adaptation Physiology Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AH Wageningen, The Netherlands

Hatchling length and weight are used as tools to measure hatchling quality. However, the relationship between these parameters and later performance are not well known. This review evaluates the relationship between hatchling length or weight and slaughter weight, breast meat yield and feed conversion ratio (FCR) in both male and female broilers. Download the entire article via the button below.