Table 2.
Egg quality of 43-week-old White Leghorns kept in conventional cages and floor-pens

Housing types Egg weight (g) Egg shell color Albumin height (mm) Haugh unit York color Egg shell thickness (mm) Egg shell weight (g)
Cages 63.2±4.4a 68.2±3.0a 9.9±2.1a 96.9±9.9 8.0±0.7 0.35±0.03 9.2±0.8a
Floor-pens 60.6±3.9b 66.4±3.9b 9.2±1.7b 94.4±9.3 7.8±0.9 0.35±0.03 8.4±0.7b
P-values <0.0001 0.0005 0.0137 0.0707 0.1043 0.1505 <0.0001