Effects of dietary supplementation with tafla on heat stress, growth performance, blood constituents and carcass traits in NZW rabbits under Egyptian environmental conditions [electronic resource].

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Fifty New Zealand White (NZW) weaned male rabbits 35, days of age with average body weight 637 +10.2 g were used to study the effect of adding different levels of tafla to their diets on heat stress, growth performance, blood constituents and carcass traits. The rabbits were randomly allotted to 5 treatment groups, 10 animals in each. The first group was used as a control and fed a commercial basal diet containing 28% alfalfa hay,18% barley grains, 18% soybean meal, 25% wheat bran, 6 % yellow corn and 3% molasses. The second, third, fourth and fifth groups were fed the basal diet supplemented with 2, 4, 6 and 8 % tajla, respectively. The experiment lasted from weaning (5 weeks old) until 13 weeks of age. Growth pelformance, carcass traits, blood biochemical analysis, rectal temperature and respiration rate were measured.

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