Sunflower meal for growing rabbits: digestibility and performance

  • Antonio Claudio Furlan UEM
  • Haroldo Garcia de Faria UEM
  • Claudio Scapinello UEM
  • Ivan Moreira UEM
  • Alice Eiko Murakami UEM
  • Maurício Luiz da Rosa Santolin UEM

Abstract

Two trials were carried out to determine the nutritional value and the performance of rabbits fed on diets including sunflower meal. Twenty New Zealand White rabbits, 50 days old, were used for digestibility trial, in a completely randomized design, with two treatments and 10 replications. A reference and a test diet were used in which sunflower meal replaced 25% of the reference dry matter-based diet. The digestibility coefficients of dry matter, crude protein, NDF, ADF and crude energy were respectively 63.34, 80.08, 59.13, 29.72 and 63.98%. Digestible dry matter, digestible protein, digestible N.D.F, digestible A.D.F and digestible energy contents of sunflower meal, on feed basis, were respectively 58.70, 27.28 20.26, 6.71% and 2.706 Kcal/DE. In the performance trial, 75 White New Zealand rabbits, from 40 to 80 days of age, were used. Rabbits were distributed in a completely randomized design with five treatments (five levels of inclusion, with the sunflower meal 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% replacing the soybean meal) and 15 replicates of one animal per experimental unit. There were no effects of sunflower meal levels on rabbit performance. Results showed that sunflower meal could replace the soybean meal in the rabbit diets.

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Author Biography

Antonio Claudio Furlan, UEM
É professor há 25 anos na Universidade Estadual de Maringá, e, atualmente, Professor Titular. Tem experiência na área de Zootecnia, com ênfase em Avaliação de alimentos para animais não ruminantes e Determinação de exigência nutricional, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: suínos, frangos de corte, codornas e coelhos Currículo Lattes
Published
2008-05-09
How to Cite
Furlan, A. C., Faria, H. G. de, Scapinello, C., Moreira, I., Murakami, A. E., & Santolin, M. L. da R. (2008). Sunflower meal for growing rabbits: digestibility and performance. Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences, 23, 1023-1027. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascianimsci.v23i0.2660
Section
Animal Science

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