Today I set approximately 4 dozen eggs. Half of them were washed in a betadine solution on collection and half were left as collected. Each day I randomly split up the eggs from each pen so I could have a good sampling. Both batches should have fairly even distribution of age of eggs and pen of origin. I am going to see if there is any difference in hatchability. I plan on doing this for several batches until I have done a couple hundred eggs, or until I see a very obvious difference. If none of the washed eggs hatch, for example, I will terminate the experiment early.
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