
Visando a melhorar a produtividade, muitas empresas do mercado avícola incubam a maioria dos ovos produzidos nas granjas, incluindo aqueles com problemas de casca. Para avaliar as conseqüências dessa prática, foram estudados os índices de produtividade de 6992 ovos das linhagens Ross e Cobb, agrupados em cinco categorias, segundo a integridade e a qualidade da casca e o local de postura: controle, trincados, deformados, trincados lavados e deformados lavados. Determinaram-se índices de fertilidade, eclodibilidade, mortalidade embrionária e contaminação. Os índices de eclodibilidade dos ovos deformados foram menores que os trincados e controle (P0,05). O maior índice de contaminação e de mortalidade embrionária foi nos ovos deformados (24,3% e 45,4%) e deformados lavados (36,1% e 34,0%). Os resultados sugerem que se deve dar preferência ao descarte de ovos deformados, independentemente do lavado e do local de postura quando se procura aumento da eficiência em incubatórios industriais.To increase productivity rates, many industries of the poultry market hatch most of the eggs produced in the farm, including those with damaged shells. Aiming at evaluating the implications of this practice in the productivity of industrial hatcheries, fertility, eclosion, mortality and contamination rates of 6992 eggs from the Ross and Cobb breeds, were studied. The eggs were allocated in five groups: control, crashed, deformed, washed crashed and washed deformed. Eclosion rates were lower in deformed eggs than in crashed and control eggs (P0.05). Contamination and mortality rates increased in deformed (24.3% and 45.4%) and washed deformed eggs (36.1% and 34.0%). The results suggest that deformed eggs should be preferentially eliminated from hatching.
productivity, S, casca, Agriculture (General), Agriculture, produtividade, S1-972, incubatório, shell, eggs, hatching, ovo
productivity, S, casca, Agriculture (General), Agriculture, produtividade, S1-972, incubatório, shell, eggs, hatching, ovo
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