A 12-week study was conducted to evaluate the productive performance of Bovans White laying hens fed high-nutrient-density diets under Egyptian summer conditions. Two hundred hens were randomly assigned to five equal dietary treatments, five replications each. Birds were kept at community cages in an open-sided laying house, provided with a daily photoperiod of 16 h and managed similarly. A control diet was formulated (as fed basis) to contain a metabolizable energy of 2880 kcal kgG 1 , 17.40% crude protein, 4.35% Ca, 0.43% nonphytate P, 0.84% lysine, 0.41% methionine and 0.70% methionine plus cysteine. Four high nutrient density diets were also compounded to contain 102.5, 105, 107.5 and 110% of the nutrients present in the control diet, thus five mash diets were composed and used from 44-56 weeks of age. The criteria of response were feed intake, egg production, egg weight, egg mass, feed conversion, body weight change, egg components and certain traits of egg quality, nutrient digestibility and some blood plasma parameters. Feeding the high nutrient density diets exerted no positive effect on productive performance of hens, digestibility of nutrients (dry matter, organic matter, crude protein, ether extract, crude fiber, nitrogen-free extract and ash retention), some egg quality traits and most blood parameters examined but positively affected weight change, percent albumen, shell thickness, yolk index and Haugh units. It is concluded that increasing dietary nutrient density up to 110% of the recommended requirements of Bovans White laying hens does not improve their productive performance under Egyptian summer conditions.