Productivity Comparison Among Fourteen EGG

Abstract

#The data presented pertains to seventeenth Tennessee Random Sample Laying Test wherein fourteen egg production poultry stocks were used. They were fed with and without sodium bicarbonate (0.5%), and their influence on different traits was studied. Treatment effects were found to be significant with respect to certain traits only. Low level of salt was found to influence significantly (p< 0.05) average egg weight whereas the increase in blood spot percentage was influenced very highly (p<0.001). The supplementation of Soda bicarbonate significantly (p<0.05) decreased mortality percentage. Many indications of interactions were observed. The first order interaction, salt bicarbonate levels was significant (p<0.05) with respect to average egg weight. Stock salt level interaction was highly significant (p<0.01) with respect to average egg weight, and so also was the final body weight and Haugh Units (p<0.05). Second order of interaction of stock salt × bicarbonate for average egg weight was found to be significant (p<0.05), but for the meat spots, the significance level was much higher (p<0.01).