What are the problems often encountered in a poultry hatchery Leave a comment

Problems often encountered in a poultry hatchery

• Low rate of eggs with embryos.
• Many embryos dead at an early incubation stage.
• High rate of rotten eggs during incubation.
• Piped eggs, without hatching.
• Late hatching or chicks not hatching at the same time.
• Complete hatch failure
• Poor quality of day-old birds:
  1) Chicks hatch with crippled and malformed legs.
  2) Chicks hatch with rough or unhealed navel, wet and dirty feathers.
  3) High mortality during the first week of life.