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RECOMENDATIONS AND GUIDELINES FOR APPLIED NUTRITION EXPERIMENTS IN RABBITS. FERNÁNDEZ-CARMONA, J.(1), BLAS, E.(1), PASCUAL, J.J.(1), MAERTENS, L.(2), GIDENNE, T.(3), XICCATO, G.(4), GARCIA, J.(5)
(2) Centre for Agricultural Research, Department of Animal Nutrition and Husbandry, Melle, Belgium (3) Station de Recherches Cunicoles, INRA, Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France (4) Dipartimento di Scienze Animali, Università di Padova, Legnaro (Padova), Italy (5) Dpto de Producción Animal - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain ABSTRACT: The aim of this paper was to draw up a set of recommendations for applied nutrition and feeding trials with rabbits, in relation to certain aspects such as determining the nutritive value of raw materials or diets in growing or reproducing animals, studying digestive physiology and obtaining growth and reproduction parameters. We deal first with animals, size of the sample, housing conditions, diets, handling, measurements, and the data analyses relevant to the design of the experiment are described. Secondly, we give a list of recommended items and include some comments. More information about this work: World Rabbit Science
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