Table 1.

Effects of genetic laying hen crossbred on egg weight and egg components before incubation.

	Genetic crossbred		SEM	P-value
	AB	BB
n	90	90
Morphological stage1	9.62	9.70	0.09	0.34
Egg weight, g	60.74	60.90	0.65	0.27
Yolk weight, g2	15.93	15.65	0.11	0.08
Albumen weight, g2	38.87	39.06	0.11	0.21
Shell weight, g2	6.02	6.11	0.04	0.17
Shell thickness, mm2,3	0.403	0.408	0.019	0.25

¹According to Eyal-Giladi and Kochav (1976); n = 62 for AB and 64 for BB.

²Corrected for egg weight at day 0.

³Average of sharp end, equator and blunt end.