Estimation the Effects of Shape Traits on Egg Shell Breaking Strength using MARS

This study aimed to estimate the egg shell breaking strength (ESBS) with the external egg quality traits such as egg weight (EW), specific gravity (SG), shape index (SI) egg width (EWi) and egg height (EH) using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines.For this aim 719 white shell color eggs were used as a data set.There was no high relation obtained with the egg shell breaking strength (ESBS) when the highest positive correlation obtained between EW and EWi and a negative highest relation was observed between EH and SI.The results of this study showed that the egg shell breaking strength cannot be reliably estimated by the external egg quality traits such as egg weight (EW), specific gravity (SG), shape index (SI) egg width (EWi) and egg height (EH) using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines.