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Reproductive and productive performance of rabbit does submitted to an oral glucose supplementation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 2009

Y. A. Attia ,
A. E. Abd El-Hamid ,
F. Bovera  and
M. I. El-Sayed
Y. A. Attia*
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture-Damanhour, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
A. E. Abd El-Hamid
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture-Damanhour, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
F. Bovera
Affiliation:
Department of Scienze Zootecniche e Ispezione degli alimenti, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
M. I. El-Sayed
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture-Damanhour, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
*
†E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In order to investigate the effect of different levels of oral glucose supplementation and/or reproductive method on productive and reproductive performance of New Zealand White (NZW) doe rabbits in the tropic, 36 bucks and 120 doe NZW rabbits were equally divided among four treatment groups (n = 9 bucks + 30 does). The treatments consisted of supplementing drinking water with 0 (control), 2.5, 5 and 10 g glucose/l, respectively. To study the effect of reproduction method (natural v. artificial), each group was divided into two sub-groups (naturally mated and artificially inseminated) with the same bucks of the same treatment group. Glucose supplementation at 5 or 10 g/l of water increased (P < 0.01) litter weight at birth and at weaning, and litter weight gain during the 4 weeks. However, glucose supplementation at 2.5 or 5.0 g/l water decreased (P < 0.01) feed consumption from 7 to 14 days after delivery. Glucose supplementation at 2.5 g/l water did not affect productive and reproductive performance of rabbits. Artificially inseminated does had higher daily litter weight gain between 21 and 28 days post partum. Artificially inseminated group had better milk conversion during the 1st and 4th week as compared to naturally mated groups. Compared with the control group, the economic efficiency and performance index of NZW rabbits was significantly improved by 5 g glucose supplementation under tropic condition.

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rabbitglucosereproductive performancegrowthmilk yield
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animal , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , October 2009 , pp. 1401 - 1407
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Copyright © The Animal Consortium 2009

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