1. Effect of fibre and digestible energy levels on retail cuts, gut characteristics and morphology of growing rabbits
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T. A. Ayanniyi, I. E. Akpan, S. O. Durosaro, O. M. O. Idowu, Abimbola Oladele Oso, A. A. Adegbenjo, S.O. Osho, and Ibukun M Ogunade
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Morphology (linguistics) ,biology ,Gut morphology ,Chemistry ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Dietary fibre ,Anatomy ,biology.organism_classification ,Small intestine ,Jejunum ,Caecum ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Animal science ,Carcass weight ,Duodenum ,medicine ,Weaner rabbits ,Carcass yield ,Organ weights ,Gut characteristics - Abstract
The retail cuts, gut characteristics and morphology of rabbits fed with varying dietary fibre and digestible energy (DE) levels were measured in a 70-d feeding trial using 135 weaner rabbits. The experiment was designed as a 3 × 3 factorial arrangement of treatments having 3 levels of dietary fibre (low, optimum and high) and 3 levels of DE (low, optimum and high). The rabbits were allotted to 9 dietary groups consisting of 15 rabbits each. Main effect of fibre and DE showed that dressing out percentage (P < 0.05), chilled carcass weight (P
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- 2020
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