Effects of Dietary Citric Acid on the Growth and Physiology of Rabbits

ISBN-13: 9786139932870 / Angielski

Oloyede Solomon; Terzungwe Ahemen; Addass Philip

Opis

A total of thirty (30) weaner rabbit bucks were used in this study to investigate the effects of dietary citric acid on growth performance, carcass yield, reproductive parameters, blood profiles and bone characteristics of cross-bred rabbits. Six (6) rabbits each were randomly assigned to five dietary treatments and each animal served as a replicate. Feed grade synthetic citric acid were varied in the diets of the rabbits at the rate of 0.00, 0.75, 1.50, 2.25 and 3.00 %. The feeding trial lasted for 16 weeks. The results revealed that the inclusion of citric acid in the diets had no significant (P0.05) effect on average daily feed intake, average daily weight gain and feed conversion ratio. However, the inclusion of citric acid in the diets of the weaner rabbits had significant effect (P 0.05) of citric acid on the dressing percentage and weight of primal cuts.

O autorze

Solomon, Oloyede
The author of this research paper is an Animal Physiologist with options in the Reproductive Physiology, Lactation, Hematology, Histology, Microbiology and Nutrition of Farm Animals.