The effects of dry tomato pulp on hen performance
of laying hens are given in Table 2. As can be shown from
Table 1 dry tomato pulp had a significant effect on the
FEW, FI and FCR, whereas dry tomato pulp has no
significant effect on the egg yield.
FCR and egg yield obtained in the current experiment
is considerably lower than that obtained by Nobakht and
Safamehr (2007) but consistent with finding of Jafari et al.
(2006).
The effects of dry tomato pulp on external egg
charecteristics of laying hens are given in Table 3. As can
be shown from Table 3 dry tomato pulp had a significant
effect on the egg weight and egg shape index whereas dry
tomato pulp had no significant effect on shell weight,
shell thicknes and shell strength.