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Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 5 The effects of dietary treatments on quality of the eggs

From: Evaluation of cottonseed bioactive peptides supplementation on performance, egg quality, and total antioxidant activity of serum in laying hens

 

Dietary treatments

SEM**

P value

Item

Control

5 g BPC*/kg

Haugh unit

96.5

94.8

1.23

0.33

Protein in albumen (%)

10.5b

11.4a

0.16

0.001

Albumen height (mm)

6.54

6.58

0.15

0.82

Yolk color

10.9

11.4

0.34

0.35

Yolk height (mm)

18.56

18.33

0.19

0.39

Eggshell Thickness (MM)

0.42

0.41

0.00

0.09

Eggshell strength(kg/cm2)

3.88

4.04

0.16

0.48

  1. *Cottonseed bioactive peptide. ** Standard error of mean. a−b Values in the same row not sharing a common superscript differ P < 0.05
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