Storage of eggs in water affects internal egg quality, embryonic development, and hatchling quality

Poultry Science

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2350-2357

  Van Den Brand, H ^a   Reijrink, I A M ^b   Hoekstra, L A ^b   Kemp, B ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HatchTech BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chick quality; Egg component; Egg storage; Embryonic development; Hatch time

Indexed keywords

EID: 55749094380     PISSN: 00325791     EISSN: 15253171     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3382/ps.2007-00451     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Arora, K. L., and I. L. Kosin. 1966. Developmental responses of early turkey and chicken embryos to pre-incubation holding of eggs: Inter- and intra-species differences. Poult. Sci. 45:958-970.
2. Arora, K. L., and I. L. Kosin. 1968. The response of the early chicken embryo to pre-incubation temperature as evidenced from its gross morphology and mitotic pattern. Physiol. Zool. 41:104-112.
3. Baarendse, P. J. J., B. Kemp, and H. van den Brand. 2006. Early-age housing temperature affects subsequent broiler chicken performance. Br. Poult. Sci. 47:125-130.
4. Becker, W. A. 1960. The storage of hatching eggs and the post-hatching body weights of chicken. Poult. Sci. 39:588-599.
5. Becker, W. A., J. V. Spencer, and J. L. Swartwood. 1968. Carbon dioxide during storage of chicken and turkey hatching eggs. Poult. Sci. 47:251-258.
6. Bloom, S. E., D. E. Muscarella, M. Y. Lee, and M. Rachlinski. 1998. Cell death in the avian blastoderm: Resistance to stress induced apoptosis and expression of anti-apoptotic genes. Cell Death Differ. 5:529-538.
7. Brake, J., T. J. Walsh, C. E. Benton, J. N. Petitte, R. Meijerhof, and G. Peñalva. 1997. Egg handling and storage. Poult. Sci. 76:144-151.
8. Byng, A. L., and D. Nash. 1962. The effects of storage on hatchability. Br. Poult. Sci. 3:81-87.
9. Chernoff, H. 1954. On the distribution of the likelihood ratio. Ann. Math. Stat. 25:579-586.
10. Christensen, V. L., M. J. Wineland, G. M. Fasenko, and W. E. Donaldson. 2001. Egg storage effects on plasma glucose and supply and demand tissue glycogen concentrations of broiler embryos. Poult. Sci. 80:1729-1735.
11. Davis, G. T., and A. F. Beeckler. 1962. Plastic packaging of eggs. 1. Methods of packaging. Poult. Sci. 41:391-397.
12. Elibol, O., B. Hodgetts, and J. Brake. 2002. The effect of storage and pre-warming periods on hatch time and hatchability. Avian Poult. Biol. Rev. 16:243-244.
13. Eyal-Giladi, H., and S. Kochav. 1976. From cleavage to primitive streak formation: A complementary normal table and a new look at the first stages of development of the chick. Dev. Biol. 49:321-337.
14. Fasenko, G. M. 2007. Egg storage and the embryo. Poult. Sci. 86:1020-1024.
15. Fasenko, G. M., and F. E. Robinson. 1998. Identification of the incubation period when broiler breeder embryonic development is delayed due to egg storage for 14 versus 4 days. Poult. Sci. 77(Suppl. 1):77. (Abstr.)
16. Fasenko, G. M., F. E. Robinson, A. I. Whelan, K. M. Kremeniuk, and J. A. Walker. 2001. Prestorage incubation of long-term stored broiler breeder eggs: 1. Effects on hatchability. Poult. Sci. 80:1406-1411.
17. 2 from contingency tables, and the calculation of P. J. R. Stat. Soc. [Ser A] 84:87-94.
18. 2 in quality of shell eggs in storage. Poult. Sci. 38:106-111.
19. Funk, E.M. and J.F. Forward. 1951. Effect of humidity and turning of eggs before incubation on hatching results. Missouri Agric. Exp. Station Bull. 554.
20. Gillespie, J. I., and S. McHanwell. 1987. Measurement of intra-embryo pH during early stages of development in the chick embryo. Cell Tissue Res. 247:445-451.
21. Hall, G. O., and A. L. Romanoff. 1943. Changes in weight of eggs stored in water and in air. Poult. Sci. 22:396-397.
22. Hamburger, V., and H. L. Hamilton. 1951. A series of normal stages in the development of the chick embryo. J. Morphol. 88:49-92.
23. Heath, J. L., and S. L. Owens. 1978. Effect of oiling variables on storage of shell eggs at elevated temperature. Poult. Sci. 57:930-936.
24. Hill, A. T., and J. W. Hall. 1980. Effects of various combinations of oil spraying, washing, sanitizing, storage time, strain, and age of layer upon albumen quality changes in storage and minimum sample sizes required for their measurements. Poult. Sci. 59:2237-2242.
25. Hinton, H. R. 1968. Storage of eggs. Pages 251-261 in Egg Quality: A study of the hen's egg. T. C. Carter, ed. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, UK.
26. Kosin, I. L. 1964. Recent research trends in hatchability-related problems of the domestic fowl. World's Poult. Sci. J. 20:254-268.
27. 2, plastic bags and extended holding periods as factors. Poult. Sci. 52:296-302.
28. Kutchai, H., and J. B. Steen. 1971. Permeability of the shell membranes of hens' eggs during development. Respir. Physiol. 11:265-278.
29. Landauer, W. 1967. The hatchability of chicken eggs as influenced by environmental and heredity. Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station Monograph 1 (Revised). University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
30. Lourens, A., R. Molenaar, H. van den Brand, M. J. W. Heetkamp, R. Meijerhof, and B. Kemp. 2006. Effect of egg size on heat production and the transition of energy from egg to hatchling. Poult. Sci. 85:770-776.
31. Mather, C. M., and K. F. Laughlin. 1977. Storage of hatching eggs: The effect on early embryonic development. Br. Poult. Sci. 18:597-603.
32. Mayes, F. J., and M. A. Takeballi. 1984. Storage of the eggs of the fowl (Gallus domesticus) before incubation: A review. World's Poult. Sci. J. 40:131-140.
33. Meijerhof, R. 1992. Pre-incubation holding of hatching eggs. World's Poult. Sci. J. 48:57-68.
34. Merritt, E. S. 1964. Pre-incubation storage effects on subsequent performance of chicken. Br. Poult. Sci. 5:67-73.
35. Parmentier, H. K., M. G. B. Nieuwland, E. Rijke, G. De Vries Reilingh, and J. W. Schrama. 1996. Divergent antibody responses to vaccines and divergent body weights of chicken lines selected for high and low humoral responsiveness to sheep red blood cells. Avian Dis. 40:634-644.
36. Proudfoot, F. G. 1964a. The effect of nitrogen and other gases on hatchability of eggs stored in plastic bags. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 44:120-121.
37. Proudfoot, F. G. 1964b. The effects of plastic packaging and other treatments on hatching eggs. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 44:87-95.
38. Proudfoot, F. G. 1968. Hatching egg storage effects on hatchability and subsequent performance of the domestic fowl. Poult. Sci. 47:1497-1500.
39. Proudfoot, F.G. 1976. Care of hatching eggs before incubation. Agric. Canada Publ. No. 1573.
40. SAS Institute. 2002. SAS/STAT User's Guide. Version 9.1. SAS Inst. Inc., Cary, NC.
41. Sauveur, B., R. Ferre, and L. Lacassagne. 1967. Conservation d'oeufs de poule sous atmosphere enrichie en gaz carbonique . Ann. Zootech. 16:351-356. (Storage of eggs at high carbon dioxide levels) (In French)
42. Schwall, D. V., F. A. Gardner, and E. D. Parnell. 1961. Effects of oil treating on shell egg quality during short term refrigerated storage. Poult. Sci. 40:583-588.
43. Steinke, L. 1969. Keimscheibeuntersuchungen an Hühnereiern unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Entwicklungszustandes. [Investigations to germinal discs of poultry eggs with emphasis on developmental stage]. (In German). Arch. Geflügelkd. 36:5-10.
44. Tona, K., F. Bamelis, B. De Ketelaere, V. Bruggeman, V. M. B. Moraes, J. Buyse, O. Onagbesan, and E. Decuypere. 2003. Effects of egg storage time on spread of hatch, chick quality and chick juvenile growth. Poult. Sci. 82:736-741.
45. Tullett, S. G., and R. G. Board. 1976. Oxygen flux across the integument of the avian egg during incubation. Br. Poult. Sci. 17:441-450.
46. Verstegen, M. W. A., W. van der Hel, H. A. Brandsma, A. M. Henken, and A. M. Bransen. 1987. The Wageningen respiration unit for animal production research: A description of the equipment and its possibilities. Pages 21-48 in Energy Metabolism in Farm Animals: Effects of Housing, Stress and Disease. M. W. A. Verstegen and A. M. Henken, ed. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
47. Walsh, T. J., R. E. Rizk, and J. Brake. 1995. Effects of temperature and carbon dioxide on albumen characteristics, weight loss, and early embryonic mortality of long stored hatching eggs. Poult. Sci. 74:1403-1410.
48. Wolanski, N. J., E. J. Luiten, R. Meijerhof, and A. L. J. Vereijken. 2004. Yolk utilisation and chick length as parameters for embryo development. Avian Poult. Biol. Rev. 15:223-234.
49. Wolanski, N. J., R. A. Renema, F. E. Robinson, V. L. Carney, and B. I. Fancher. 2006. Relationship between chick conformation and quality measures with early growth traits in males of eight selected pure or commercial broiler breeder strains. Poult. Sci. 85:1490-1497.