Evaluación del porcentaje de nacimientos de acuerdo al tiempo de almacenamiento del huevo de codorniz.

Abstract

This research was carried out with the acquisition 120 quail eggs, to then select those that were among the quality parameters, storing and incubating 96 eggs in the month of November 2023, in the city Duran, province of Guayas. The eggs were stored on different days (1, 7, 8 and 9), then four groups of 24 eggs were made to place them in the four incubators, being differentiated with markers. An attempt was made to manage a temperature of 37.5 °C, however this was lower possibly due to the power outages that occurred in the country. While 35 % - 50 % Relative humidity in the first days and 84 % - 89 % in the last days. The thickness the shell used in the research was thin or thin, while the greatest weight of the egg was less than 12 grams. On the other hand, there was a significant difference with a p-value < 0.05, regarding the percentage births with days storage, which indicated that there was a relationship between these variables, however the rest the variables were greater than the p-value 0.05, indicating that birth, shell thickness and water loss had no relationship with storage, position, spots, brightness and sector. Finally, the embryo diagnosis indicated that the highest percentage deaths occurred on day one incubation, probably due to the cooling of the incubator, perhaps due to the aforementioned.