Abstract

QUINTERO P., Victoria E.; GARCIA R., Genny P.  and  PELAEZ R., Angélica M.. Evaluation of gold-bud flour in diets for rabbits in growing stage. Acta Agron. [online]. 2007, vol.56, n.4, pp.203-206. ISSN 0120-2812.

At the farm of the Nacional University of Colombia, Palmira (1.000 masl, 24°C and an annual pluvial precipitation of 1.020 mm) an experiment was carried out with 24 white New Zealand weaned rabbits (35 days and 900 grams average weight). The statistical design used was a complete random with 3 levels (treatments) of diet inclusion in the gold bud flour (T1 - 15%, T2 - 30% y T3 - 45%) and a control (T4) with the commercial concentrated. The diets were isocalorics (2.400 kcal) and isoproteics (16%). There weren´t any significant differences (P‹0.05) in consumption of dry matter. With respect to the weight gains and nourishing conversion, significant differences were observed (P‹0.05) with the control (27.3 gd^-1 y 3.0 respectively). The treatments T4 and T2 used few days to reach 2.000 g (44.3 and 52.1 days respectively). T2 showed the highest rate of marginal return.

Keywords : Thitonia diversifolia; Asteraceae; Compositae; rabbits; growing.

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