Herbage intake regulation and growth of rabbits raised on grasslands: back to basics and looking forward
| Autor: | Heloise Legendre, Antoine Roinsard, Guillaume Martin, Jean Pierre Theau, Audrey Duprat, Jean-Pierre Goby, Maryn Descombes, Thierry Gidenne |
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| Přispěvatelé: | AGroécologie, Innovations, teRritoires (AGIR), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Génétique Physiologie et Systèmes d'Elevage (GenPhySE ), École nationale supérieure agronomique de Toulouse [ENSAT]-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT), Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Institut Technique de l'Agriculture Biologique (ITAB), This work was funded by the French Ministry of Agriculture (Casdar complémentaire Lapin Bio), the INRA metaprogram GISA (project PROF), the INRA division PHASE (project MarkPast) and the INRA AgriBio 4 program (project CUNIPAT). |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Dietary Fiber
agroecology Animal feed [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] organic agriculture rabbit Context (language use) Biology Poaceae SF1-1100 Grassland [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences Eating Animal science herbage allowance Grazing Animals Weaning [INFO]Computer Science [cs] Dry matter grazing Herbivory 2. Zero hunger geography geography.geographical_feature_category 0402 animal and dairy science Technical information 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Animal Feed 040201 dairy & animal science Diet Animal culture Dietary Supplements [SDE]Environmental Sciences 040103 agronomy & agriculture 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Animal Science and Zoology Rabbits |
| Zdroj: | Animal, Vol 10, Iss 10, Pp 1609-1618 (2016) Animal Animal, Published by Elsevier (since 2021) / Cambridge University Press (until 2020), 2016, 10 (10), pp.1609-1618. ⟨10.1017/S1751731116000598⟩ animal animal, Published by Elsevier (since 2021) / Cambridge University Press (until 2020), 2016, 10 (10), pp.1609-1618. ⟨10.1017/S1751731116000598⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1751-7311 1751-732X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S1751731116000598⟩ |
| Popis: | International audience; Organic agriculture is developing worldwide, and organic rabbit production has developed within this context. It entails raising rabbits in moving cages or paddocks, which enables them to graze grasslands. As organic farmers currently lack basic technical information, the objective of this article is to characterize herbage intake, feed intake and the growth rate of rabbits raised on grasslands in different environmental and management contexts (weather conditions, grassland type and complete feed supplementation). Three experiments were performed with moving cages at an experimental station. From weaning, rabbits grazed a natural grassland, a tall fescue grassland and a sainfoin grassland in experiments 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Rabbit diets were supplemented with a complete pelleted feed limited to 69 g dry matter (DM)/rabbit per day in experiment 1 and 52 g DM/rabbit per day in experiments 2 and 3. Herbage allowance and fiber, DM and protein contents, as well as rabbit intake and live weight, were measured weekly. Mean herbage DM intake per rabbit per day differed significantly (P |
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