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

Table 4 Effect of camelina and flax seed in the diet of layer birds on egg fatty acid composition

	Dietary Treatments^d				P-Value
Egg lipids, %	Control	Camelina	Flax	Pooled SEM	Diet	Month	Diet x Week
Palmitic acid (16:0)	25.42	25.80	24.86	0.30	0.09	0.33	0.59
Palmitoleic acid (16:1)	5.85	5.99	5.48	0.14	0.25	0.006	0.97
Stearic acid (18:0)	7.71	7.78	7.63	0.15	0.80	0.65	0.28
Oleic acid (18:1)	47.92^a	45.52^b	46.45^b	0.47	0.004	0.25	0.90
Linoleic acid (18:2 n-6)	9.27	9.38	10.35	0.54	0.31	0.080	0.33
α-Linolenic acid (18:3 n-3)	0.42^b	1.53^a	1.49^a	0.11	0.001	0.001	0.02
Eicosenoic acid (20:1)	0.31^b	0.47^a	0.28^b	0.02	0.001	0.071	0.20
Arachidonic acid (20:4 n-6)	1.69^a	1.31^b	1.15^b	0.08	0.0003	0.022	0.07
Docosapentaenoic (22:5 n-3)	0.06^c	0.27^a	0.19^b	0.02	0.0001	0.009	0.81
Docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 n-3)	0.66^b	1.25^a	1.35^b	0.05	0.0001	0.46	0.08
Total saturated fatty acids	33.62	34.06	32.96	0.33	0.085	0.465	0.39
Total monounsaturated fatty acids	54.08^a	51.99^b	52.22^b	0.45	0.004	0.156	0.81
Total omega-6 fatty acids	11.10	10.82	11.72	0.53	0.482	0.689	0.24
Total omega-3 fatty acids	1.19^b	3.12^a	3.09^a	0.17	0.001	0.005	0.03
Total omega-6:omega-3	5.99^a	2.45^b	2.80^b	0.29	0.001	0.001	0.001
Total lipids, %	33.04	33.30	32.86	0.41	0.75	0.001	0.03

^a,b,cMeans within a row with no common superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05). Pooled SEM = pooled standard error of mean. ^dControl, Camelina and Flax represent corn-soybean meal basal diet (Control); or basal diets containing camelina (Camelina) or flax seeds (Flax) at 10 %
Total saturated fatty acids (14:0 + 16:0 + 18:0 + 20.0); Total monounsaturated fatty acids (16:1 + 18:1 + 20:1 + 22:1); Total n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (18:2 n-6 + 20:4 n-6 + 20:3 n-6 + 22:4 n-6 + 22:5 n-6); Total n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (18:3 n-3 + 22:5 n-3 + 22:6 n-3)

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