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Table 3 Effect of dietary inclusion of camelina and flax seeds on production performance of brown laying hens during 16 wk of feeding period

From: Egg quality, fatty acid composition and immunoglobulin Y content in eggs from laying hens fed full fat camelina or flax seed

Egg parameters

Dietary treatments1

Pooled SEM

P value

 

Control

Camelina

Flax

Diet

Week

Diet x Week

Egg production, %

87.67b

92.81a

92.65a

0.03

0.012

0.408

0.307

Feed consumption, g/d

118.60b

128.04a

130.64a

2.60

0.001

0.260

0.937

Egg weight, g

63.43a

60.43b

63.65a

0.87

0.017

0.006

0.890

Yolk weight, g

15.99

15.32

15.62

0.59

0.22

0.356

0.664

Shell weight, g

6.95

6.76

6.64

0.11

0.148

0.993

0.481

Albumen weight, g

40.49a

38.35b

41.40a

0.67

0.006

0.002

0.942

Shell thickness, mm

44.08a

42.73ab

41.00b

0.64

0.005

0.004

0.035

Yolk weight, %

25.22

25.36

24.55

0.33

0.182

0.243

0.665

Yolk color

5.67a

5.40ab

5.17b

0.11

0.009

0.001

0.001

Shell weight, %

10.96a

11.21a

10.49b

0.15

0.005

0.006

0.634

Albumen weight, %

63.81b

63.42b

64.96a

0.37

0.012

0.021

0.821

Haugh unit

63.11

68.68

66.12

2.20

0.208

0.122

0.545

Yolk:albumen

0.40

0.40

0.38

0.01

0.106

0.165

0.704

  1. a,bMeans within a row with no common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05). Pooled SEM = standard error of mean
  2. 1Control, Camelina and Flax represent corn-soybean meal basal diet (Control); or basal diets containing camelina (Camelina) or flax seeds (Flax) at 10 %