Improving breast meat yield starts in the hatchery

The primary objective of a turkey hatchery is to achieve the highest possible number of poults from the eggs. Other factors may even be more important however. The incubation conditions strongly influence growth of the breast muscle during embryonic development and the potential impact on breast meat yield. By Technical Team, Hybrid Turkeys, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada The turkey breast muscle is conspicuously the largest single muscle in the turkey. At hatch the breast muscles can account for 3