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. 2023 Jan 9;102(4):102486. doi: 10.1016/j.psj.2023.102486

Table 3.

Comparative body weights of hens fed a full-fat high-oleic soybean meal diet for 3 weeks.

Treatments1 BW Wk0 BW Wk3 Mean daily feed consumption2 FCR3 Mean hen house egg production4 (%) Mean daily egg Wt5 (g)
Treatment 1 1568 1693 109.0a 1.727 92.71 63.16
Treatment 2 1565 1628 96.34b 1.601 96.35 60.20
Treatment 3 1589 1660 101.1ab 1.660 93.75 60.98
Treatment 4 1618 1695 102.5ab 1.641 94.27 62.52
SEM 46.7 45.9 3.144 0.046 2.292 1.383
P-value 0.656 0.417 0.003 0.065 0.451 0.136
1

Four experimental isonitrogenous (18.5% crude protein) diets were formulated: Trmt1-Control = conventional diet containing solvent-extracted defatted soybean meal and corn; Trmt2-EENO = diet containing extruded-expelled defatted normal-oleic soybean meal and corn; Trmt3-FFNO = diet containing full-fat normal-oleic soybean meal and corn; Trmt4-FFHO = diet containing full-fat high-oleic soybean meal and corn

2

Average Daily Feed Consumption = amount of feed consumed per week by each treatment group divided by 7 days.

3

Feed conversion ratio (FCR) = total egg weights (in grams) for each treatment/g total feed consumed by that treatment group over the 3-week feeding trial.

4

Mean Hen House Egg Production = total number of eggs produced divided by total number of hens present over the 3-week feeding trial.

5

Mean Daily Egg Weight = average mass of the eggs produced per week by each treatment group divided by 7 days.

a,b

Means within the same column lacking a common superscript differ significantly (P < 0.05).

P-value = statistically significant differences are identified by P < 0.05 in analysis of variance (ANOVA).