Table 5.

Effect of diet on lay percentage (eggs/100 hens housed/d) of hens in Experiment 1.¹

		Brassica napus		Brassica juncea		Pooled	P-value
	Control	Meal	Cake	Meal	Cake	SEM	Diet
Weeks 1 to 4	97.03	96.28	96.13	97.32	97.62	2.01	0.981
Weeks 5 to 8	95.94	94.64	93.18	94.88	95.81	2.06	0.885
Weeks 9 to 12	96.87	98.22	97.02	98.17	98.42	2.04	0.972
Weeks 13 to 16	96.43	96.03	97.17	98.07	97.62	2.01	0.952
Weeks 17 to 20	97.22	95.14	96.58	96.78	97.92	2.01	0.902
Weeks 21 to 24	96.63	95.04	95.58	96.23	96.03	2.03	0.985
Weeks 25 to 28	94.41	94.67	94.88	95.88	97.37	2.02	0.833
Weeks 29 to 32	93.26	91.77	94.20	96.40	94.15	1.99	0.585
Weeks 33 to 36	92.66	92.56	93.20	94.99	92.91	2.01	0.906
Overall	95.59	94.92	95.32	96.52	96.42	0.67	0.368

¹LSmeans based on 6 cages of 4 birds each per diet.