Table 5. Effects of high moisture ear corn and high moisture shelled corn on eggshell strength, Haugh unit and yolk color in hens egg quality on the 6th week in the trial period.
| Item | Diets |
SEM | P-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CON1 | EC2 | SC3 | |||||
| Eggshell strength | kg/cm2 | 3.52 | 3.42 | 3.27 | 0.11 | 0.67 | |
| Haugh unit | 80.0 | 83.6 | 83.5 | 0.82 | 0.11 | ||
| Yolk color† | L* | 50.3b | 51.9ab | 52.6a | 0.35 | 0.01 | |
| a* | 1.3a | −4.1b | −4.8b | 0.83 | 0.01 | ||
| b* | 42.4a | 39.1b | 34.1c | 1.06 | 0.01 | ||
1
Control diet based on commercial laying hen diet.
2
Diet based on high moisture ear corn.
3
Diet based on high moisture shelled corn.
†
Lab color space (L*: lightness, a*: redness, b*: yellowness).
a, b
Within a row, means without a common superscript differ (P<0.05).