Increasing hatchability of turkey eggs with biotin egg injections.
At 25 days of incubation, eggs from Large White turkey hens in two field trials were injected with 87 micrograms of exogenous d-biotin per egg. Hatchability of fertile biotin-injected eggs was significantly higher than that of control (noninjected) eggs. Hatchability values of fertile eggs were 4 and 5% higher for exogenous d-biotin-injected eggs than for control eggs for December 1985 and May 1986 trials, respectively.
United States Department of Agriculture, Avian Physiology Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland 20705.
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Christensen
D000818:Animals; D001710:Biotin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004531:Eggs; D014422:Turkeys / Q000502:physiology*
D001710:Biotin