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Hussein, A. (2025). PERFORMANCE, PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CALIFORNI RABBITS REARED IN DIFFERENT CAGE DENSITY. Egyptian Poultry Science Journal, (), -. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2025.19995.1059
Ahmed M. A. Hussein. "PERFORMANCE, PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CALIFORNI RABBITS REARED IN DIFFERENT CAGE DENSITY". Egyptian Poultry Science Journal, , , 2025, -. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2025.19995.1059
Hussein, A. (2025). 'PERFORMANCE, PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CALIFORNI RABBITS REARED IN DIFFERENT CAGE DENSITY', Egyptian Poultry Science Journal, (), pp. -. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2025.19995.1059
Hussein, A. PERFORMANCE, PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CALIFORNI RABBITS REARED IN DIFFERENT CAGE DENSITY. Egyptian Poultry Science Journal, 2025; (): -. doi: 10.21608/epsj.2025.19995.1059

PERFORMANCE, PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS OF GROWING CALIFORNI RABBITS REARED IN DIFFERENT CAGE DENSITY

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 19 May 2025  XML
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/epsj.2025.19995.1059
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Ahmed M. A. Hussein email
Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Assuit University, Assuit, Egypt
Abstract
The current study was carried out into two separate experiments to study the effect of cage density on performance, physiological parameters and carcass characteristics on growing males and females’ rabbits. Thirty-six of six-week-old weaned California males and females were used. Both males and females are divided into three different cage density treatments, one animal (single), two animals (double) or three animals (triple) per cage. The rabbits were provided a concentrate meal in flat-bottomed earthen pots at 8.00 AM. Feed intake was daily recorded, while body weight weekly measured. In addition, both daily gain and feed conversion ratio are calculated weekly. At the end of the experiments blood samples were collected from all animals, plasma cortisol total protein, albumin, and glucose were measured. At the end of experiment all meals were slaughtered carcass weight, measurements, parts and individual muscle weight were recorded. The most remarkable results are, high cage density (double and/or triple) significantly decreased (P
Keywords
cage density; feed intake; carcass characteristics; cortisol
Main Subjects
Rabbit
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