Table 6.

Effect of dietary soluble non-starch polysaccharide (sNSP) level and xylanase supplementation on egg quality, measured after hens were fed the dietary treatments for 56 d, at 32 wk of age.

Item	sNSP		Xylanase		SEM	P-value
	High	Low	–	+		sNSP	Xylanase	Interaction
Egg weight, g	62.00	62.61	62.79	61.82	2.06	0.409	0.192	0.961
Breaking strength, N	46.78	47.45	46.53	47.71	3.18	0.493	0.237	0.311
Shell deformation, nm	0.293	0.290	0.289	0.294	0.02	0.978	0.389	0.778
Albumen height, mm	10.18	10.42	10.29	10.31	0.58	0.444	0.893	0.777
Haugh unit	99.7	100.4	99.7	100.3	2.49	0.605	0.475	0.641
Yolk colour score	12.00	11.93	11.82b	12.11a	0.38	0.707	0.037	0.201
Yolk weight, g	15.34	15.28	15.57a	15.05b	0.57	0.781	0.013	0.850
Shell weight, g	6.058	6.134	6.049	6.142	0.18	0.258	0.167	0.664
Shell thickness, mm	0.428	0.434	0.429	0.432	0.01	0.124	0.474	0.958
Shell reflectivity, %	24.31a	23.25b	23.95	23.6	1.66	0.036	0.901	0.207

^a,b Means with no common superscript within a row differ significantly (P < 0.05).