RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
White Egg Strains
The egg weight and percent shell were not significantly
different between the 2 white egg strains examined
(Table 4). Cherian et al. (2002) showed that the
percent shell in conventionally produced white-shell
eggs was 10.1%, which was approximately 1.6% higher
than in this study. The difference may to be related to
the egg weight because the eggs in this study were collected
at 101 wk of age when shell quality and strength
is lower. However, the HW yolks were 1.12% heavier (P
< 0.05) than the BovW at 28.12 and 27.00%, respectively.
The BovW had 0.99% more albumen than the
HW at 64.43 and 63.44%, respectively.