Table 3.

Effect of B. amyloliquefaciens on egg production and average egg weight. One means control group; two means experiment group 1; three means experiment group 2.

	number of eggs			average egg weight (g)
weeks	one	two	three	one	two	three
1–2 weeks	91	101	96	172.73 ± 5.66	179.80 ± 4.65	185.80 ± 3.79
3–4 weeks	63	69	70	171.00 ± 7.18	172.00 ± 10.82	183.10 ± 5.97
5–6 weeks	36	35	27	164.20 ± 10.44	166.60 ± 6.76	179.90 ± 6.94
7–8 weeks	35	53	34	157.10 ± 7.15	156.00 ± 6.08	180.80 ± 12.08
9–10 weeks	12	71	19	150.40 ± 20.01	167.30 ± 8.82	178.10 ± 35.03
total/average	227a	275b	246b	163.08 ± 9.39a	168.32 ± 8.65a	180.56 ± 3.96b

^a,b Different lower case superscript were significantly different by the one-way ANOVA means in a row (p < 0.05). Data are reported as mean ± s.e.