Abstract
Many hatching eggs become soiled and breeders and hatcherymen are confronted with cleaning such eggs or selling them on the market. This is the report of an effort to find a way to clean soiled hatching eggs.Jackson (1912) reported hatching results with washed and unwashed eggs which showed a difference of 12.5 per cent in favor of the unwashed eggs. Evidently he washed the eggs in water and he did not report the temperature of either the eggs or water.Funk (1940) reported that eggs he had artificially soiled when cleaned by washing with either water or a one per cent lye water solution hatched equally as well as clean, unwashed eggs. Unpublished data of this report showed the following percentage hatch of all eggs: clean eggs, 84.1; clean eggs dipped in liquid egg, 34.2; clean eggs dipped in liquid egg and after drying washed in warm water, 84.3. .
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