Evaluation of milled pearl millet in the feeding of growing rabbits

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia

Fernanda Catelan¹  Claudio Scapinello¹  Josianny Limeira Figueira¹  Andréia Fróes Galuci Oliveira¹  Ana Carolina Monteiro Motta¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Estadual de Maringá Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zootecnia Maringá Paraná ,Brasil

关键词: carcass;    digestibility;    energy value;    performance;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S1516-35982012000800009

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

Two experiments were carried out in order to estimate the nutritional value and the performance of growing rabbits fed different levels of pearl millet (ADR 7010). In the digestibility trial, nutritional values of pearl millet were determined in 22 45-day-old New Zealand White rabbits, allotted in a completely randomized design, subjected to two treatments - a reference diet and a test diet with 70% of its volume composed of reference diet and 30% of pearl millet - and 11 replications. The apparent digestibility values of dry matter, crude protein, neutral detergent fiber and gross energy of the pearl millet were 88.7, 85.4, 24.4 and 75.0%, respectively. In the performance trial, 120 32-day-old New Zealand White rabbits were used. Rabbits were allotted in a completely randomized design and subjected to six treatments, with 10 replications and two animals for each experimental unit. The diets were formulated with increasing levels of pearl millet (20, 40, 60, 80 and 100%), substituting the corn in the reference diet, according to the digestible energy. No differences were observed in daily feed intake, daily weight gain, feed conversion, carcass traits and feed cost per kilogram of rabbit. Regardless of the amount of corn substituted, pearl can replace corn in diets for growing rabbits.

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