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MEKARN Conference 2010
 
Live stock production, climate change and resource depletion

Effect of feeding Pseuderanthemum palatiferum (P. palatiferum) on rabbit performance and diarrhea treatment

Nguyen Ky Son

 Ninh Binh Rabbit Breeding Station- GRRC, NIAH, Vietnam
nguyenkyson03@yahoo.com

Abstract

The experiment was carried out at Nho Quan district, Ninh Binh province Vietnam from May to July 2010; to evaluate the effect of feeding Pseuderanthemum palatiferum to rabbits on performance and diarrhea treatment. Four dams (Newzealand White) * 3 rabbit farms around 1.5 years of age in the litter of 4th to 5th, and 24 weaned rabbits were used to conduct the experiments with the treatments of supplementing P. palatiferum  at 250, 350 and 500 g/day in the diet on fresh basis. Dams fed P. palatiferum at the levels of 350 and 500 were given higher results in milk yield, dry matter intake, crude protein intake and live weight gain of growing rabbits (P<0.05). Feeding P. palatiferum at the level of 350 and 500 g/day for rabbits also had a positive effect on controlling diarrhea disease as similar as medicine drug of Coli-norgen.

 Key words: P. palatiferum; rabbit’s farms feeds; intake, performance, milk yield, diarrhea disease.

 

Figure 1. Effect of feeding Pseuderanthemum palatiferum to rabbits on milk yield Figure 1. Effect of feeding Pseuderanthemum palatiferum to rabbits on growth rate