Title: Feeding Dried Rabbit Faeces to Growing Rabbits
Abstract: A total of 310 rabbits were used in two six-week feeding experiments to assess the value of including dried rabbit faeces in the diet. In the first experiment the inclusion levels were 10 and 1596. The rabbits on the 10% diet increased in live-weight more rapidly and those on the 15% diet more slowly than the controls, but the results were not significant. The food conversion ratios were higher on both faeces-containing diets while the killing-out percentages were significantly higher. In the second experiment the 10% inclusion level was used alone or in combination with zinc bacitracin. The only significant findings were that the faeces-plus-antibiotic diet reduced the weights of the stomach, small intestine and caecum when these were expressed as percentages of the body weights. Similar significant differences were found from a comparison of the faeces-plus-antibiotic and the normal antibiotic diet, showing that the antibiotic had a more marked effect in the presence of faeces.
Publication Year: 1978
Publication Date: 1978-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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