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IT is widely accepted that poor hatchability is one of the main causes of financial loss to poultry breeders. Judging from the results regularly reported by many large hatcheries, the national hatching-rate of all eggs set in Great Britain seems to be between 65 and 70 per cent.
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COLES, R., UNDERWOOD, J. Hatchability of Hen Eggs and Lymphomatosis. Nature 173, 877–878 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/173877b0
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