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

Table 6.

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

Items		Egg number per month
Items		20–24 weeks	24–28 weeks	28–32 weeks	32–36 weeks	36–42 weeks	20–42 weeks
FB¹(%)
	0	24.43	27.25^a	28.39^a	28.11^a	27.82^a	27.20^a
	25	23.22	28.55^a	28.26^a	28.33^a	28.41^a	27.35^a
	50	23.94	28.25^a	28.08^a	28.12^a	28.16^a	27.31^a
	75	21.55	24.00^b	24.78^b	24.59^b	24.39^b	23.86^b
	100	22.50	22.05^c	20.50^c	20.89^c	21.28^c	21.44^c

Enzyme (mg/kg diet)
	0	22.63	25.94	26.27	26.18	26.10	25.42
	250	23.62	26.10	25.74	25.83	25.92	25.44

FB¹ × enzyme
0	0	24.84	27.86^ab	28.68^a	28.47^a	28.27^a	27.62^a
0	250	24.02	26.64^ab	28.11^a	27.74^a	27.37^a	26.78^a
25	0	22.00	29.11^a	28.56^a	28.69^a	28.83^a	27.44^a
25	250	24.44	28.00^a	27.97^a	27.98^a	27.98^a	27.27^a
50	0	24.00	28.50^a	27.90^a	28.05^a	28.20^a	27.33^a
50	250	23.89	28.00^a	28.26^a	28.20^a	28.13^a	27.30^a
75	0	21.11	22.33^bc	25.70^b	24.86^b	24.01^b	23.60^b
75	250	22.00	25.67^b	23.87^b	24.32^b	24.77^b	24.12^b
100	0	21.22	21.89^c	20.51^c	20.85^c	21.19^c	21.13^c
100	250	23.77	22.22^c	20.50^c	20.93^c	21.36^c	21.76^c

SEM ²		1.42	0.88	0.96	0.86	0.80	0.82

Two-way ANOVA		P-value³

FB¹		0.298	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Enzyme		0.281	0.766	0.398	0.523	0.728	0.967
FB¹ × enzyme		0.699	0.045	0.040	0.039	0.048	0.046

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.