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I'd recommend going easy on the Betadine. It is a good disinfectant for initial cleaning (and evidently good to use on maggots, too) but it is destructive to new skin cells. If you use it again I would also rinse it off after a minute. Neosporin or the Swat ointment would both be good to...

I don't see why it would affect eggs or your hens, myself. Most likely he got a wound somehow, and flies laid eggs in it. You need to get the maggots out (if you haven't already) and protect the wound from flies. If you can figure out a way to do this without keeping him in your house, more...