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Table 5.

Shell characteristics of poultry layer birds fed husk based diets with or without microbial additives.

Diet	Dry shell weight (g)	Wet shell weight (g)	Shell thickness (μm)
Palm-fruit + T. virens	9.54± 0.26^a	11.01 ± 0.3195^a	0.64 ± 0.006^a
Palm-fruit – Fungus	9.25± 0.14^a	10.74 ± 0.1583^a	0.57± 0.012^c
Control maize diet	9.41± 0.15^a	10.94 ± 0.1125^a	0.60 ± 0.003^b
Probability of source of variation
Husk addition	0.4779	0.3314	0.0015
Microbial addition	0.6758	0.8557	0.0454
Husk x microbe	0.3696	0.4784	0.0021