Influence of breed and inclusion levels of pineapple peel on body weight and morphometric traits of domestic rabbit bucks

Author: I. Mallam, O. I. Handan, J. Sechii, M. A. Ahmad and I. Abubakar
mallamiliya2011@gmail.com
Abstract:
Thirty-two rabbits of three breeds – Chinchilla (CH), Dutch (DH), and New Zealand White (NZ), between 6 and 7 weeks with an initial average weight of 762.25±52.66 g were randomly assigned to four dietary treatments (0, 5, 10, and 15 % pineapple peel) in a completely randomized design in a 3 × 4 factorial to examine the influence on body weight and morphometric traits. The body weight (BW), body length (BL), chest girth (CG), ear length (EL), fore leg (FL), head length (HDL), hind leg (HL), height at wither (HW), and tail length (TL) were measured. The data obtained were subjected to the analysis of variance (ANOVA). The mean body weight showed that CH and NZ breeds had similar weights, which were significantly (P0.05) differences among the zoometric traits measured except for body length, head length, and tail length. The inclusion levels of pineapple peel had no significant (P>0.05) effect across all the dietary treatments for all the traits except for tail length and ear length with higher dimensions at 15 and 5%, respectively. There were significant (p<0.05) differences in interaction between breed and inclusion levels on body weight and all the morphometric traits except for CG, EL, FL, and HL. Therefore, CH breed is recommended for body weight and up to 15 % PP can be included in the diet of rabbit bucks without any effect on their BW, BL, CG, FL, HDL and HW.

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Key Words: Body weight, breed, morphometric traits, pineapple peel, rabbit bucks
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I. Mallam, O. I. Handan, J. Sechii, M. A. Ahmad and I. Abubakar (2022). Influence of breed and inclusion levels of pineapple peel on body weight and morphometric traits of domestic rabbit bucks. Annals of Anim. Bio. Res., 2(1): 87-95

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