“…Fertile eggs of the EI treatments hatched significantly better than fertile eggs of the LI treatments. This has not been observed in previous studies (Mclntyre et al, 1982;Mclntyre and Christensen, 1985). Furthermore, eggs from the 20 million sperm/AI group The hatch of fertile eggs for the 20, 50, and 100 million sperm/AI groups in Weeks 16 to 20 was 56.6, 72.6, and 67.0%, respectively, with the 20 million group being significantly lower than the other two.…”