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. 2015 May 14;24(2):276–285. doi: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2015.05.009

Table 5.

Egg weight of laying hens as affected by faba bean levels and enzyme supplementation during the experimental periods.

Items		Egg weight (g)
Items		20–24 weeks	24–28 weeks	28–32 weeks	32–36 weeks	36–42 weeks	20–42 weeks
FB¹(%)
	0	64.08^a	70.15^a	69.96^b	71.40^a	70.51^ab	69.22^a
	25	64.04^a	70.63^a	71.48^a	71.77^a	71.29^a	69.84^a
	50	64.21^a	69.88^a	69.69^b	70.43^a	70.00^b	68.84^a
	75	61.32^b	65.50^b	66.79^c	65.68^b	65.99^c	65.06^b
	100	61.48^b	65.73^b	63.07^d	62.02^c	63.61^d	63.18^c

Enzyme (mg/kg diet)
	0	63.19	67.86	68.02	67.88	67.92	66.97
	250	62.87	68.90	68.37	68.64	68.64	67.48

FB¹ × enzyme
0	0	64.79	72.06^a	70.07^a	71.43^a	71.18^a	69.91^a
0	250	63.37	68.24^ab	69.85^a	71.38^a	69.83^a	68.54^a
25	0	64.30	69.74^a	70.82^a	69.85^ab	70.14^a	68.97^a
25	250	63.79	71.51^a	72.15^a	73.69^a	72.45^a	70.72^a
50	0	64.08	68.13^ab	69.28^a	69.79^ab	69.07^a	68.07^a
50	250	64.34	71.64^a	70.10^a	71.06^a	70.93^a	69.61^a
75	0	61.85	63.79^c	67.06^b	65.06^b	65.30^b	64.61^b
75	250	60.79	67.21^bc	66.52^b	66.31^bc	66.68^b	65.50^b
100	0	60.93	65.58^c	62.88^c	63.27^c	63.91^b	63.32^b
100	250	62.03	65.89^c	63.26^c	60.78^c	63.31^b	63.05^b

SEM ²		0.83	0.81	0.64	0.84	0.58	0.54

Two-way ANOVA		P-value³

FB¹		0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Enzyme		0.544	0.052	0.397	0.166	0.061	0.151
FB¹ × enzyme		0.566	<0.001	0.614	0.014	0.013	0.040

Means in the same column within each classification bearing different letters are significantly different (P < 0.05 or 0.01).

¹

FB: faba bean.

²

SEM: standard error of the means.

³

Overall treatment P-value.