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Effects of feed restrictions on growth performance, carcass traits and meat quality of growing rabbits.

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Ahaotu, Emmanuel Ayo-Enwerem, C. M.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	*Corresponding Address: EO Ahaotu emmaocy@yahoo.com Effects of duration of restricted feeding on growth, carcass traits and meat quality of fattening rabbits were studied. Sixty male chinchilla rabbits of 6 weeks old were divided into four treatment groups with five replicates each. The duration of restricted feeding (6 hours eating/day) lasted for zero, two, three and four weeks for treatments 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, followed by adlibitum feeding up to the end of the experiment at age of 18weeks. Body gain in weight were not statistically influenced by increasing the duration of restricted feeding, but daily feed intake was reduced from 3.79 to 19.81% and zero to 16.19% at 14 and 18weeks respectively. No significant effect in feed conversation or mortality rate was observed with increasing the duration of restricted feeding. Carcass traits and meat quality were not affected by increasing the duration of restricted feeding. Age of rabbits at slaughter influenced nearly all carcass traits. Starved body weight, carcass weight, dressing percentage, loin percentage and abdominal fat percentage were increased, while giblets percentage and head percentage were decreased with increasing slaughter age. Hind-and-forequarter percentages were not statistically influenced with increasing slaughter age. A positive linear relationship was found among live body weight, carcass weight, dressing percentage and loin percentage. Dressing percentage was positively correlated with abdominal fat percentage, but negatively correlated with giblets percentage and head percentage.
Starting Page	144
Ending Page	148
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
Volume Number	2
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.ijagbio.com/pdf-files/volume-2-no-4-2013/144-148.pdf
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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