This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary essential oil/palygorskite composite (EO-PGS)on performance and intestinal microflora of laying hens.Four hundred and eighty healthy 65-week-old brown Lohmann hens were randomly assigned to 4 groups with 6 replicates in each group and 20 hens in each replicate.Hens in the control group were fed a basal diet,and others in experimental groups were fed basal diets supplemented with 0.50,0.75 and 1.00 g/kg EO-PGS,respectively.The pre-experimental period lasted for 7 days and the ex...