Impact of organic acids supplementation on fiber level and occurrence of intestinal disturbances in rabbits [electronic resource].

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Acidifiers have been assayed for intensive rabbit production diets. either as organic acids (blends of several acids) or their salts, with research being focused mainly on both health and productive performances. The impact of organic acids fortification for grower New Zealand x Californian rabbit diets having difftrent levels offiber (18 & 14 % ADF) on growth performance, carcass traits as well as nutrients digestibility and energy nutritive value rrDN and DE) were demonstrated in this study. Results obtained revealed that the body weight gain, feed conversion values showed no significant difftrences between the rabbits fed the control diet and those jed organic acids fortified diets and have the same nutrients content while the groups fed low fiber diets were significantly (P<0.05) lower than groups jed normal fiber diet and this may be attributed to the observed diarrhea due to low fiber level in their diet. However, jeed intake for all groups fed organic acid supplemented diets were significantly (P<0.05) lower than the control group. Carcass traits and dressing percentage values of rabbits jed the experimental diets and slaughtered at 11 weeks old revealed that there was no significant difference in the rabbits fed the control diet and· those fed organic acids fortified diets.

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