title: Relationship between parental age, egg weight and hatching weight of Japanese quail.
abstract: 1. The relationships between egg weight or age of breeder quails (Coturnix coturnix japonica) and 1-d-old chick weight were determined. 2. Significant correlations were found between egg weight and chick weight (R2 = 0.32) and age and chick weight (R2 = 0.86). Thus, hatching weight was influenced more by the age of breeder quails than by egg weight as such. 3. Chick weight was accurately predicted by the use of age as a single independent variable; egg weight did not explain any further variation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Animal Husbandry, Veterinary School, The University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Tserveni-Gousi
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001835:Body Weight; D003370:Coturnix / Q000502:physiology*; D004531:Eggs; D005260:Female; D011784:Quail / Q000502:physiology*