{"title":"Growth performance, carcass and hematological characteristics of rabbits fed graded levels of tiger nuts ( Cyperus esculentus )","authors":"A. Adenkola, J. Ayoade, Babadusi, Sg Igorche","doi":"10.4314/APRA.V5I2.49850","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This experiment was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of tiger nuts ( Cypers esculentus ) rejects on the growth performance, carcass weight and hematological parameters of weaner rabbits. Three experimental diets were formulated with Diets A being a commercial growers’ mash as control diet; Diet B: 5% parts of Tiger nuts ( Cyperus esculentus) +95% parts of Diet A; Diet C: 10% parts of Tiger nuts ( Cyperus esculentus ) +90% parts of Diet A. The effects of dietary treatments on feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio were not significant (p>0.05). The dressing percentage ranged from 66.87 to 75.92% and was significantly (p 0.05) difference between treatments. Results demonstrated that ( Cyperus esculentus ) could be used up to 5% in rabbit’s diets without adverse effect on the animals’ performance and health.","PeriodicalId":350170,"journal":{"name":"Animal Production Research Advances","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Animal Production Research Advances","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/APRA.V5I2.49850","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This experiment was conducted with the aim of investigating the effect of tiger nuts ( Cypers esculentus ) rejects on the growth performance, carcass weight and hematological parameters of weaner rabbits. Three experimental diets were formulated with Diets A being a commercial growers’ mash as control diet; Diet B: 5% parts of Tiger nuts ( Cyperus esculentus) +95% parts of Diet A; Diet C: 10% parts of Tiger nuts ( Cyperus esculentus ) +90% parts of Diet A. The effects of dietary treatments on feed intake, body weight gain and feed conversion ratio were not significant (p>0.05). The dressing percentage ranged from 66.87 to 75.92% and was significantly (p 0.05) difference between treatments. Results demonstrated that ( Cyperus esculentus ) could be used up to 5% in rabbit’s diets without adverse effect on the animals’ performance and health.