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Last Updated: March 29, 2024

Claims for Patent: 4,893,585


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Summary for Patent: 4,893,585
Title: Zeolites in poultry hatching
Abstract:A method of improving the quality of poultry chicks wherein a small amount of zeolite is added directly to the poultry eggs producing the poultry chicks, prior to hatching of the poultry eggs.
Inventor(s): Laurent; Sebastian M. (Greenwell Springs, LA)
Assignee: Ethyl Corporation (Richmond, VA)
Application Number:07/123,281
Patent Claims:1. A method of improving the hatching parameters of poultry eggs which comprises incubating the egg for about one day at about 100.degree. F., placing the warm incubated egg in a water suspension of zeolite wherein the temperature of the suspension is from about 1.5.degree. F. to about 30.degree. F. lower than the temperature of the egg just prior to being placed therein, soaking the egg in such solution, and thereafter incubating the egg to cause hatching of a poultry chick to occur.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the poultry chick is selected from the group consisting of chickens and turkeys.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the zeolite is a zeolite A.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the water of the water suspension of zeolite is sterile water.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the zeolite of the water suspension is a zeolite A.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the amount of zeolite added to the poultry egg during such soaking is in a sufficient amount to increase the quality of the poultry chick after hatching but not in such an amount that would have a deleterious effect on the chick embryo prior to hatching.

7. A method of improving the hatching parameters of poultry eggs during incubation, wherein the poultry eggs are soaked in a suspension of zeolite in water for a period of from about five to twenty minutes just prior to placement in the incubator; the temperature of said suspension being from about 15.degree. to about 25.degree. F. lower than the temperature of said eggs.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the zeolite is a zeolite A.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the concentration of the zeolite in the water suspension of zeolite is from about 50-3000 ppm.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the concentration of the zeolite in the water suspension is about 100-750 ppm.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the concentration of the zeolite in the water suspension of zeolite is about 50-2000 ppm.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the poultry eggs are soaked in a zeolite-water suspension for at least five minutes of the incubation period.

13. A method of improving the hatching parameters of poultry eggs during incubation, wherein the poultry eggs are sprayed with a suspension of zeolite in water; the temperature of said suspension being lower than the temperature of said eggs by from about 15.degree. to about 25.degree. F.

14. An improved egg for hatching produced by the method of claim 9.

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