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The concern of people about nutritional quality and healthy eating make them to reduce meat consumption due to the fear of hypercholesterolemia. Against this background, there is need to incorporate cholesterol-reducing feed stuff into diets of meat producing animals. This study was therefore carried out to evaluate the performance as well as carcass quality of rabbits fed diets containing processed Mucuna seed meal (MSM) for 84 days. A total of 45 rabbit bucks (New Zealand White) of six weeks old were divided into three treatment groups of 15 rabbits each. Each treatment group was replicated thrice with five rabbits per replicate. The rabbit groups were randomly assigned to three treatment diets in a completely randomized design: The three experimental diets were formulated such that Mucuna pruriens seed (processed by soaking and boiling) replaced maize at 0, 20 and 30% as T1, T2 and T3 respectively. T1 served as the control without Mucuna Pruriens. Data were collected on feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion ratio, carcass traits and meat lipid profile viz: total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein (LDL), very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL). Result obtained revealed that rabbits on mucuna-based diets (T2 and T3) had significant (P |
