Fifteenth Issue

Use of Kitchen and Vegetableswaste -Products in Feeding of Local Rabbits and its Economic Effect

Hamid Abdul Shakur, Anwar Adem A. Kader, Mansour S. Khan
Summary

The study was conducted in the experimental farm of the Livestock Research Center in Lahj during two seasons (2005/2006) using six weeks old (in summer) and eight weeks old rabbits (in winter) for four weeks in each season. The first treatment was a "control" involving two groups of 12 rabbits each (males and females) (24 rabbits) fed with rough forages (B. N. hybrid (Bajra + Napier grass hybrid) and sorghum forage (1:1) and concentrated stuffs (wheat bran with salt and minerals (0.5%) in summer and winter. The second treatment (experimental) contained 24 rabbits (two groups of 12 rabbits "males and females") fed with free feed (optional), and depe.nded on kitchen and vegetables waste-products. The second treatment was found superior in body weights increase (7.2-11.4%) in summer and (9%) in winter and also in net return (9.7-12.2% and 13.3-16.3%) for summer and winter respectively. If kitchen and vegetables waste-products are available in large quantity; with good taste and at low cost, breeders could depend on them in feeding rabbits without negative effects on production performance (weight).

Key Words :rabbits,teeding,vegetables.kitchens. waste -products.

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