Abstract
Nutritional and phytogenic properties of pawpaw (Carica papaya) leaf meal on blood characteristics of growing rabbits
Highlights
Phytogenic compounds have recently received great attention in animal nutrition due to their growthpromoting and medicinal properties
The crude protein (CP) values in this study ranged between 16.70 and 17.66% which falls within the requirement for growing rabbits (16% CP) as recommended by NRC (1977) and Lebas (2013) and 16–18% as recommended by Fielding (1991)
The crude fibre (CF) range of 15.40–16.45% reported in this study failed to follow a particular trend but compared with the recommended values of 14–18% and 14–16% reported by Gidenne and Lebas (2002) and Mayer (1955) for growing rabbits
Summary
Phytogenic compounds have recently received great attention in animal nutrition due to their growthpromoting and medicinal properties. Earlier reports by Otsuki et al (2010) and Nguyen et al (2013) indicated that the leaves can prevent and kill cancer cells It was reported (Chávez-Quinta et al, 2011; Aravind et al, 2013; Nguyen et al, 2014; Patil et al, 2014) to have antimalarial, antiplasmodial, anthelmintic, antiparasitic, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, digestive stimulant and antihypertensive activities. These indicated the dual properties of pawpaw leaves as a nutritional agent and medicinal agent; highlighting its nutritional and ethno-veterinary properties. The study was designed to evaluate the blood characteristics of growing rabbits fed varying levels of pawpaw leaf meal containing diets with a view of ascertaining nutritional and ethnoveterinary properties for improved rabbit performance
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