Peformance of growing rabbits fed diets containing different levels of fennel and marjoram wastes under desert environmental conditinons [electronic resource].
أداء الأرانب النامية المغذاة على علائق تحتوى على مخلفات كل من الشمر والبردقوش تحت ظروف البيئة الصحراوية.
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A total number of 100 unsexed New Zealand White NZW rabbits, aged 6 wk old and average 822 g in weight. were used to evaluate replacing alfalfa hay by different levels of Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill) hay (FH) (18,36 and 54%), arjoram (Oreganum marjoranum L) hay (MH) and their (1:1) mixture of (18,36 and 54%), in growing rabbit diets. Parameters studied included growth performance, digestibility coefficients of nutrients, carcass characteristics, blood parameters, caecum activities andmicrobiology and economic efficiency.
Summary in Arabic.
Rabbits--Feeding and feed. Rabbits--Feed utilization efficiency. Rabbits--Physiology. Heat--Physiological effect.