| Two trials were carried out to determine the nutritional value and the performance of rabbits fed on diets including sunflower meal. Twenty New Zealand White rabbits, 50 days old, were used for digestibility trial, in a completely randomized design, with two treatments and 10 replications. A reference and a test diet were used in which sunflower meal replaced 25% of the reference dry matter-based diet. The digestibility coefficients of dry matter, crude protein, NDF, ADF and crude energy were respectively 63.34, 80.08, 59.13, 29.72 and 63.98%. Digestible dry matter, digestible protein, digestible N.D.F, digestible A.D.F and digestible energy contents of sunflower meal, on feed basis, were respectively 58.70, 27.28 20.26, 6.71% and 2.706 Kcal/DE. In the... |
