Chick weight and chick quality may be in-
fluenced by egg parameters, preincubation
storage duration, and age of breeder. Bray and
Iton [14], Wilson [15], Silversides and Scott
[8], and Tona et al. [16] have shown that egg
weight is a dominant factor affecting chick
weight at hatch. Other studies have demonstrated
that this effect may depend on the age
of breeder, storage duration, and incubation
duration of the eggs [17, 18, 19]