Sterilizing hatching eggs

Fascinating article. I remember when you started this experiment and followed along. The only way this could be a more pertinent article, IMO, would be if you tried it on some eggs known to come from a Marek's infected hen, and that would just be nuts as it would mean exposing your entire flock. What you showed is that it is safe to sanitize eggs by submerging them, and this is a breakthrough discovery. Excellent work!

Do you having any citations supporting your thesis that mareks is spread on eggs? My understand it is not. It is spread chicken to chicken.

The next time I hatch eggs in the incubator I will do this! I would have given you 5 stars just for the chicken pics :love

Excellent Info.
Thank You!

Excellent article, Debbie! Well executed experiment with the control group (how many of those hatched, by the way?). I'll look into this product and test it out on my own flock.

This is a great article. I hatched 3-fertile eggs with a broody hen that were purchased. I never stopped to think about what diseases I could have brought in from the outside of the eggs. But now I will. Thank you.

What a wonderful article! This provides hope for anyone hatching eggs from chickens that possibly have Marek's.

An interesting experiment, with good detail on the methodology. Thank you, Debbie292d for exploring this and sharing your results! I am very glad your Odoban treated eggs hatched so well. Bravo!

Interesting and relevant topic, with valuable information. Will be following.

This is a fantastic article and well thought out. I spent the last 21 days following this experiment, the knowledge I have gained not only how use an incubator but how important it is to sterilize the incubator. It will be encouraging to follow the growth of these little chick that were soaked in Odoban before hatching, to see if there are any other effects on them.

Now I feel I could actually use a incubator. With this amazingly step by step easy to follow article. Plus I would be thrilled to share this for any other potential chicken folks I may meet. :clap

Easy to follow. A nice read with something gained in knowledge.

Very informative! This experiment was Really fun to follow along with. I will definitely be trying this someday.

Wow, this is some great original data and nicely written! Thanks for including photos.

Very informative and well written, thank you for looking into this topic!

Interesting article! Thank you for doing this experiment, and I look forward to reading the updates.

Wonderfully informative and helpful article. Very well written and easy to understand.

Excellent article Debbie! Thank you for doing so much research and then conducting the experiment, it is a huge contribution to our chicken community and especially my flock! I'm looking forward to collecting more data on the use of Odoban on hatching eggs, it truly looks like a viable method to be able to hatch sanitized eggs from a Mareks positive flock, to then be able to vaccinate un-exposed chicks!

This is a well written article with easy to follow information.

If you've ordered eggs on line and don't know if Mareks is a possibility, or your own flock has Mareks and you are hatching your own eggs, this article will help you sterilize your eggs to help keep the chicks safe at hatch. Wonderful job Debbie!

Sterilizing hatching eggs

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