INTRODUCTIONIt is well estabilished

INTRODUCTION
It is well estabilished that the egg yolk color is one of
the very important factors for markrtiing in many
countries. Recently some feed additives and ingredients
have been used to manipulate and obtain for the
requested level of pigmentation in egg yolk color
(Santos-Bocanegra et al., 2004; Samli et al., 2005;
Hasin et al., 2006; Jafari et al., 2006; Nobakht and
Safamehr,2007).
The dry tomato pulp is the one of the feed ingredent,
which has been widely used to manipulate the
pigmentation in egg yolk color of laying hens. It was also
suggested that dry tomata pomace can be used as a
protein source due to high protein content (Elloitt et al.,
1981 ).
However, the information about the effects of dry
tomato pulp on egg yolk pigmentation and some egg yield
charecteristics of laying hens is stillimted. Therefore, the
objective of this experiment was to determine the effects
of dry tomato pulp on egg yolk pigmentation and some
egg yield charecteristics of laying hens.