Effect of Feeding Diets Containing Treated Jatropha Seed Meal on Performance of Growing Rabbits | ||||
| Journal of Animal and Poultry Production | ||||
| Article 7, Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2020, Page 103-107 PDF (598.25 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jappmu.2020.87133 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Walaa A. Salama* ; Amal M. A. Fayed; Hanan A. M. Hassanein; Fatma G. Ahmed; A. I. Abd-El- Lateif | ||||
| Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| A study was assigned to assess the ameliorate the feeding value of jatropha seed meal by chemical or autoclave treatments and the feasibility of using in rabbit diets. Sixty weaned APRI rabbits, six weeks old with an average live body weight 707.26±4.54g were allotted randomly to five groups (twelve rabbits/treatment in 3 replicates). Five experimental diets were formulated where soybean meal protein of the basal diet (control) was replaced by chemically or autoclaved jatropha seed meal protein (CTJSM or ATJSM, respectively) of the rate of 15 or 30%. The growth trail continued lasted up to 14th week of age. There were final body weight and daily body weight gain with rabbits fed diets containing 15% CTJSM and 15% ATJSM diets close to rabbis fed control diets. The feed conversion ratio was significantly improved with 15% ATJSM and CTJSM diets compared with control. Digestion coefficients and nutritive values were insignificantly differed with tested diet contained 15% CTJSM compared to control. The control and tested groups resulted in the better dressing% compared to 30% CTJSM group. There were significantly increased in plasma ALT when replacing 15 or 30% ATJSM and 15% CTJSM, while plasma AST was significantly decreased when rabbit fed 15 % ATJSM compared to control. Economic efficiency and relative economic efficiency recorded the highest values with 15% CTJSM followed by 15% ATJSM, compared to control.Conclusively, It could be concluded soybean meal protein could be replaced by CTJSM and ATJSM protein at the level of 15%without an adverse in rabbits performance. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Rabbits; Jatropha seed meal; soybean meal; growth | ||||
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