Dehydrated chicory pulp as an alternative soluble fibre source in diets for growing rabbits
| Autor: | Angela Trocino, Luc Maertens, Hocine Guermah |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Sugar beet pulp
rabbit Positive control Rabbit engineering.material Feed conversion ratio Nutrient Animal science Botany sugar beet pulp medicine lcsh:SF1-1100 soluble fibre lcsh:Veterinary medicine Soluble fibre biology chicory pulp Chemistry Pulp (paper) Dietary fibre biology.organism_classification Chicory pulp engineering lcsh:SF600-1100 Animal Science and Zoology Sugar beet lcsh:Animal culture medicine.symptom Weight gain |
| Zdroj: | World Rabbit Science, Vol 22, Iss 2, Pp 97-104 (2014) RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia instname |
| ISSN: | 1989-8886 1257-5011 |
| DOI: | 10.4995/wrs.2014.1540 |
| Popis: | [EN] Soluble fibre (SF) is an important nutrient to enhance fermentative activity and gut health in rabbits. The main source of SF in rabbit diets is sugar beet pulp (SBP), whereas, due to its high content of SF (34%), dried chicory pulp (ChP) could be an alternative to SBP. In a fattening trial with 192 hybrid weanlings 32 d old weighing 837±45 g, chicory pulp was used in replacement of SBP to study effects on production performances and slaughter characteristics. Rabbits were fed one of 4 iso-energetic (9.65 MJ digestible energy/kg) and isonitrogenous (15.6% crude protein) diets: a negative control (NC) diet with a low dietary SF content (7.3%), a positive control diet with quite a high SBP level (13.5%) and SF content (10.6%) and 2 diets with respectively 10% and 20% of chicory pulp (ChP10: 9.9% SF and ChP20: 13.7% SF). The SF content was measured as the difference between total dietary fibre and neutral detergent fibre, the latter corrected for ash and protein content. Each dietary treatment consisted of 12 replicates of 4 rabbits. Weight gain was high (on av. 54 g/d) and comparable for the NC, SBP and ChP diets. However, feed conversion ratio was improved (P |
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