Abstract
A 60-day feeding trial was conducted to determine the effect of Jatropha Curcas leaf meal on growth performance and carcass characteristics of weaned rabbit. Four diets were formulated to contain different level of jatropha leaf meal. Treatment one was the control (0g of jatropha leaf meal), treatment two (0.50g jatropha leaf meal), Treatment three (0.70g jatropha leaf meal) and treatment four (0.90g jatropha leaf meal). Twenty four (24) six weeks old rabbits were divided into four group dietary treatment. Each group was replicated three times with two rabbits per replicate and housed in a cage system in a Complete Randomized Design (CRD). The results show that rabbit feed with 0.50g jatropha leaf meal and 0.90g jatropha leaf meal performed significantly (p<0.05) better than the rest in terms of body weight. There was a significant (p<0.05) difference in feed conversion efficiency among the treatment. The carcass showed significant (p<0.05) difference among treatment for live weight, dressed weight and dressing percentage. There was also significant (p<0.05) difference in organ weight (lungs and spleen) except for heart, liver and kidney among the treatments. The results suggest that jatropha leaf meal used at 0.50g and 0.90g will improve feed utilization and performance of growing rabbit.
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