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Abstract
Feed costs are the major and ever increasing cost item in the rabbit production. Studies have been made on rabb~ its to reduce feeding expenses and the time required fpr marketing since many yearse
Due to a short gestation period (30 - 32 days, Hamnlond ~ al, 1983) and a high growth rate (Rao et al, 1977), rabbbits reach their adult weights relatively quickly. Rabbiits have a good meat~o-bone ratio and more efficient food conversion than otherlivestock animals (Ministry of Agricuulture, Fisheries, and food, U.K., 1968). Rabbit meat is high in protein and low in fat content (Rao et 1978).
As far as the rabbit is concerned, feeding habits offfer no rather competi tiol1 to man. These advantages make the rabbit ideally suited for meat production in small prooduction using absolute rabbit feed which cannot be utilized with the s.ame efficiency by other animals.
The small size rabbits as the Local 3aladi, require less feed and less other additions than standard Foreign breeds and hybrids raised for meat production. The standdard Foreign breeds and hybrids, which recently spread in Egypt, are in great need of feed with good quality of prottein, more vitamins and minerals. But, in the same time a ration must be economically less expensive.