Effect of Feeding Wild Ginseng Culture By-products on Performance and Egg Quality of Laying Hens

The wild ginseng culture by-products(WGCB) was added to the laying hens diets. A total of 420 Lohmann Brown laying hens were alloted to five levels of drinking water containing WGCB 0, 0.4, 0.8 1.6, with seven replications and fed com-soybean meal based diets contained ME 2,800 kcal/kg, CP . Laying Performance, egg quality, egg yolk fatty acid and cholesterol concentration were measured. Egg Production and daily e99 mass were significantly lower(p compared with no WGCB group, but showed no significant effect in other treatments. Feed efficiency of birds fed WGCB showed the lowest of all treatments(p