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Hepatocellular CarcinomaOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
A total number of 42 growing crossbred rabbits of both sexes at 6 weeks of age (with an average body weight 750 ±50g) were kept under the same managerial and hygienic conditions. Rabbits were randomly divided into 7 equal groups, 6 for each. Rabbits were fed control (AH) diet and 6 experimental diets contained the wastes of Moringa (M), Cassava (C) and Tartuffe (T) hay meal at two levels (10 and 15%) for each for a period of 10 weeks.
The results obtained showed that:
1- The chemical composition hays of the medicinal plant wastes had less CP than AH being 7.63, 7.7, 6.75 vs. 17.51%. Moringa hay contains more CF (20.75%) than both Cassava (10.18%) and Tartuffe (7.15%); alfalfa hay, however, contains the highest value of CF (24.1%).
2- No significant differences on average body weight at any week of the experimental period indicting that no adverse effect of any dietary treatment on the growth of the experimental animals.
3- Apparent digestion coefficients of DM were 55.72, 56.49, 68.19, 67.64, 72.50, 66.58 and 75.78% for the AH, M10, M15, C10, C15, T10 and T15 diets, respectively. Differences were significant (P<0.05). Digestibility of OM followed the same as DM; digestibility of CP for the same diets was 63.58, 66.24, 74.05, 72.29, 77.65, 74.53 and 81.46%, respectively. Digestion coefficient of CF was low for AH (19.42%), M10 (18.78%) and C10 (21.99%); the highest was that for T15 (51.39%). The other groups had intermediate values.
4- In general, replacing alfalfa hay with either one of the medicinal plant wastes increased nitrogen balance of growing rabbits.
5- Rabbits fed the experimental diets had similar carcass traits and chemical composition and wastes of medicinal plants did not have any adverse effect on meat quality of growing rabbits.
6- It was evident that feeding growing rabbits diets containing different kinds of medicinal plant wastes at 10 or 15% had no significant effect on blood plasma components.
7- Economic impact of different formulated diets and relative economic efficiency at the end of experimental period indicated that all treated diets had lower cost of feed than control; feed costs were 33, 26.91, 26.22, 24.71, 27.67, 26.18 and 21.88 PT) for AH, M10, M15, C10, C15, T10 and T15, respectively. Total revenue was 16.83, 27.87, 24.6, 31.39, 21.83, 26.62 and 27.62 for the same respective groups.