Survival percentage (%), early, mid and late mortality (%) and infertility (%) of the eggs of the control, sham and albumen-deprived group.

Number of fertile eggs in control (n = 144), sham (n = 144) and albumen-deprived group (n = 240). a–cWithin a row, treatment means with different superscript are significantly different (P<0.001). P-values of effect of treatment are added in a separate column. Survival (%) = (number of hatched chicks/number of fertile eggs)*100 Mortality (%) = (number of dead eggs/number of fertile eggs)*100 Infertility (%) = (number of infertile eggs/total number of set eggs) *100