Abstract

Egg shell color of Japanese quails is too verities and possible to effect of shell thickness. The objective of this study was conducted to determine the effect of egg shell color on the hatchability of Japanese quail eggs (Coturnix coturnix japonica). This research was conducted at the Poultry Laboratory, Faculty of Animal Science, Mataram University. A complete randomized design of three treatments, three replicates with each replicate assigning 40 eggs was used for the experiment. Three different shell colors were imposed as T1-white eggshell with no spots or few spots), T2-egg shells with light brown and have few spots) and T3-eggshells with dark brown, black or black spots fill the egg shell). The difference in spot or egg shell color affected the hatchability of fertile eggs and the hatching quality (P <0.05). This study indicated that T2 showed the best spot egg shell for high hatchability performance.

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