Table 1.

Effect of in ovo injected L. animalis, E. faecium, or their combination on hatch parameters.

Treatments	HVT Control	L. animalis	E. faecium	Combination	SEM	P value
% hatch of transfer	93.37	94.62	93.24	93.52	1.09	0.6498
% late dead eggs	4.43	4.93	4.05	3.10	1.34	0.2309
% pipped eggs	1.98a	0b	1.58a	1.47a	1.50	0.0389
% cracked eggs	0.22	0	0.45	0	0.37	0.2175
% contaminated eggs	0	0	0.45	0.58	0.52	0.4635
% cull eggs	0	0	0	0	.	.
Avg Chick Weight (g)	46.2	45.9	46.2	45.4	3.60	0.3900

Different superscripts (a — b) indicate significant differences in the means of treatments, where differences are considered significant at P ≤ 0.05. N = 3, where each replicate in the treatment was a GQF hatcher unit (∼170 eggs/GQF; 520 total eggs/treatment).