New Zealand Rabbits Essay

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Response of New Zealand Rabbits to diet containing Guava waste (Psidium guaijava L.):
1. Effect on Growth Performance, Diet Digestibility and Economic Efficiency.
Eman Ramadan Kamel1, Fathy Abdel-Fattah2 and Hadeel Samy Ahmed Abaas3.
1Lecturer of Economics and Farm Management, Department of Animal Wealth Development, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh 13736, Qalyubia, Egypt.
2Associate prof. of Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh 13736, Qalyubia, Egypt.
3Lecturer of Animal and poultry Production, Department of Animal Wealth Development, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Benha University, Moshtohor, Toukh 13736, Qalyubia, Egypt
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: eman.ramadan05@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:
Forty eight New Zealand White weaned male rabbits (28 d of age) were classified into 4 groups (12/group). Four isonitrogenous, iso-energetic and isofibrous diets were …show more content…

The indices of growth performance for the growing rabbits fed diets D1, D2 and D3 were significantly (p< 0.05).
SEM - Standard Error of Mean abWithin rows means bearing different superscripts differ significantly at P< 0.05) for D2, D1 and D3 groups (L.E 22.54, 22.27 and 20.59 / rabbit, respectively), than that for the control group which was L.E. 11.95 / rabbit. Regarding the economic efficiency measures among the different experimental groups, the percentages of TR/TC, NP/TC and NP/TR were higher (p < 0.05) for D2 and D1 than control and D3 experimental groups. These results indicated that feeding rabbit with diet contained up to 20% guava wastes gave high NP values , and addition of GW to diet with MOS supplementation was the most profitable when compared with other

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