Performance of growing male rabbits fed diets containing banana leaves and yeast culture [electronic resource].

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A factorial experiment (5 x 2) was conducted to evaluate the effects ofusing dried banana leaves (BL) in rabbit diets with or without yeast culture (YC) supplementation on growth peiformance, nutrients digestibility and carcass traits of male New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits. One hundred and twenty growing NZW male rabbits at 6 weeks of age were divided into 10 equal groups and housed in individual cages. Ten pelleted experimental diets were fonnulated to contain five levels of dried banana leaves (0, 10, 20, 25 and 30%), with yeast culture (Diamond V) at levels of 0 and 4 g/kg diet. Each group of rabbits was fed on one often experimental diets from 6 up to 14 weeks of age. The traits studied were live body weight, feed intake, feed conversion, protein and energy utilization, peifonnance index, economic efficiency, nutrient digestibility, carcass traits and certain measurements ofdigestive tract segments and some blood parameters.

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