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. 2022 Feb 10;9:810462. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.810462

Table 3.

Effect of dietary PNE supplementation on egg quality parameters of laying hens1.

Treatment CON PNE100 PNE200 PNE400 SEM P-value
Shell weight, g 10.38ab 10.21a 10.00a 10.80b 0.18 0.02
Yolk weight, g 25.29a 26.69b 26.69b 25.99ab 0.03 0.02
Shell strength, N 33.04 33.34 32.83 34.77 1.50 0.82
Shell thickness, μm 430.00b 412.00ab 390.00a 426.00b 0.01 0.03
Yolk color 3.30 3.30 3.35 3.40 0.14 0.96
Haugh unit 77.47bc 79.09c 72.98a 75.53ab 1.12 0.01
a,b

Within a row, means with no common superscript differ significantly (p < 0.05).

1

Means were calculated using 15 replicates (two eggs per replicate) per treatment.