“…Experimental in ovo vaccination has been used for a number of diseases including Marek's disease (MD) (Sharma & Burmester, 1982;Sharma & Graham, 1982;Sharma et al, 1984), infectious bronchitis (Wakenell & Sharma, 1986;Walkenell et al, 1995), infectious bursal disease (Sharma, 1985), Newcastle disease (Ahmed & Sharma, 1992), coccidiosis (Ruff et al, 1988;Watkins et al, 1995) and a combination of diseases (Gagic et al, 1999;. However, to date, this technology is most widely used to vaccinate broiler chickens against MD (Ricks et al, 1999).…”