The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of the level of inclusion of olive leaves and its pre-treatment with Ganoderma resinaceum Boud on growth performance, nutrient digestibilities and caecal fermentation. A total of 48 rabbits were kept in individual cages and divided in 4 groups of 12 animals. Animals were fed ad libitum with one of four diets based on a basal feed for growing rabbits – Control di...
The study was carried out to investigate the effects of two housing systems on the growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of growing rabbits during the terminal fattening period. The rabbits were lodged in conventional cages between 35 and 59 days of age (growing period). At this age, they were moved into two different housing systems until they were 87 days of age (fattening period). During the f...
The study was carried out to investigate the effects of two housing systems on the growth performance, carcass traits, and meat quality of growing rabbits during the terminal fattening period. The rabbits were lodged in conventional cages between 35 and 59 days of age (growing period). At this age, they were moved into two different housing systems until they were 87 days of age ...
Red-legged partridge breeders are frequently reared in captivity with the aim of producing fertile eggs and chicks. However, little is known regarding the role of breeder age on fertility and egg production performance. Therefore, we investigated the effects of breeder age on egg size and shape, flock reproductive performance, fertility, hatchability, and embryonic mortality. In experiment 1, the effects of bre...
Com o objectivo de estimar a composição da carcaça e a composiçao em depósitos de gordura de cabritos recorrendo a medida da gravidade específica foram utilizados 24 animais da raça Serrana (12,5 ± 5,5 kg de peso vivo). Após o abate foi obtida a carcaça e o peso dos depósitos internos de gordura. A carcaça foi dividida em duas metades. A metade esquerda fai totalmente dissecada em músculo, gordura subcutânea, g...
Com o objectivo de estimar a composição da carcaça e a composição em depósitos de gordura de cabritos recorrendo a medida da gravidade especifica foram utilizados 24 animais da raça Serrana (12,5 ± 5,5 kg de peso vivo). Após o abate foi obtida a carcaça e o peso dos depósitos internos de gordura. A carcaça foi dividida em duas metades. A metade esquerda foi totalmente dissecada em músculo, gordura subcutânea, g...
The influence of olive leaves supplementation on feed digestibility, growth performance of pigs and pork meat quality was investigated. Pigs fed diets with olive leaves at 5% (OL5) and 10% (OL10) levels had lower daily weight gain (DG) and daily feed intake (DFI) than pigs fed a conventional diet (OL0) but differences were not observed between groups fed with the different quantities of leaves. Additionally, pi...
The current experiment with 3 trials aimed to study the effect of two levels of dietary fibre – high fibre (HF; 323 g aNDFom/kg) and low fibre (LF; 248 g aNDFom/kg) – and the effect of mannanoligosaccharides (MOS) addition (1 g/kg) to the LF diet (LFM) on the performances and health status of growing rabbits, digestibility and caecal fermentative characteristics. In the growth trial 132 rabbits of both sexes we...
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