Beta
75588

EFFECT OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANT WASTES ON RABBIT PERFORMANCE, DIGESTIBILITY AND NITROGEN BALANCE

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

A total number of 42 growing crossbred rabbits of both sexes at 6 weeks of age (with an average body weight 750±50g) were randomly divided into 7 equal groups to evaluate the growth performance as affected by medicinal plant wastes. Rabbits were fed control (AH) diet and 6 experimental diets contained the wastes of moringa(M), cassava (C) and tartofa (T) hay meal at two levels (10 and 15%) for each for a period of 8 weeks. Digestibility of nutrients and nitrogen balance were also evaluated. The results obtained showed that chemical composition of moringa hay meal (M), cassava hay meal (C), tartofa hay meal (T) and alfalfa hay (AH) were; DM 93, 91, 87 and 92% for M, C, TandAH, respectively. The corresponding values of OM were 89, 90.8, 91.25 and 84.42%. The hays of the medicinal plant wastes had less CP than AH being 7.63, 7.7, 6.75 vs. 17.51%. Moringa hay contains more CF (20.75%) than both cassava (10.18%) and tartofa (7.15%); alfalfa hay, however, contains the highest value of CF (24.1%). The proximate analysis of the experimental diets showed iso-caloric and almost iso-nitrogenous values of these diets. No significant differences on average body weight. Total body weight gain was 1505, 1665, 1536, 1703, 1552, 542 and 1525 for the same respective groups; average daily gain followed the same pattern with average values of 26.9, 29.7, 27.4, 30.4, 27.7, 27.5 and 27.2g/d. Total feed per rabbit during the 8-week experimental period was 5.77, 6.31, 6.51, 6.16, 5.99, 5.77 and 5.75 kg for AH,M10, M15, C10, C15, T10andT15, respectively. Feed conversion (kg feed/kg gain) during the period of the study was not affected by the dietary treatments. Feed conversion ratio was 3.83, 3.79, 4.24, 3.61, 3.86, 3.75 and 3.77 for AH, M10, M15, C10, C15, T10 and T15, respectively. The highest PIvalue was significantly (P<0.05) recorded with group fed C10 diet (68.59%) followed by those T10 (66.30%), M10 (62.51%), C15 (61.14%), T15 (59.41%); and AH (58.31%) the least was recorded for M15 (55.21%). Using hay of such medicinal plants diets causes improvement in the digestion coefficients and feeding values than alfalfa hay. Replacing alfalfa hay with either one of the medicinal plant wastes increased nitrogen balance and biological values. Differences were significant (P<0.05).

DOI

10.21608/ejnf.2018.75588

Keywords

Medicinal plant wastes, Rabbits, digestibility and N balance

Authors

First Name

K.

Last Name

Abdel-Rahman

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Animal Production , Faculty of Agriculture, Minoufiya University, Minoufiya, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

B.

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Animal Production , Faculty of Agriculture, Minoufiya University, Minoufiya, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M.

Last Name

Abousekken

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Environmental Studies and Research Institute, Sadat City University, Minoufiya, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

U.

Last Name

Nayel

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Department of Animal Production , Faculty of Agriculture, Minoufiya University, Minoufiya, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

A.

Last Name

Musa

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Environmental Studies and Research Institute, Sadat City University, Minoufiya, Egypt.

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

21

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

11370

Issue Date

2018-08-01

Receive Date

2020-03-04

Publish Date

2018-08-01

Page Start

455

Page End

467

Print ISSN

1110-6360

Link

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/article_75588.html

Detail API

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=75588

Order

15

Type

Original Article

Type Code

1,061

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Nutrition and Feeds

Publication Link

https://ejnf.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

EFFECT OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANT WASTES ON RABBIT PERFORMANCE, DIGESTIBILITY AND NITROGEN BALANCE

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023