Volume 1 (Issue 1) 2021 Article 7

ABSTRACT:

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of garlic meal supplementation on growth performance and carcass characteristics of grower rabbits. A total of twenty four mongrel grower rabbits, aged 7-8 weeks were housed in hutches, and feed and water were supplied ad libitum. The rabbits were randomly allotted to four dietary treatments in a completely randomized block design, with each treatment having six replicate in which each rabbit forms a replicate. Garlic meal was supplemented in the four diets with 0.00 % , 0.20 %, 0.40 %, and 0.60 % for T1, T2, T3 and T4 respectively. Final weight was comparable across the dietary treatments, T1 (1334.67 g), T2 (1424.40 g), T3 (1475.50 g) and T4 (1533.60 g) . Weight gain was statistically the same for T2 (516.0 g), T3 (471.25 g) and T4 (534.40 g) However, weight gain and feed conversion ratio followed a similar trend. Live and dressed weights were significantly better at inclusion of (0.60%) of garlic meal .Therefore, it was concluded that growing rabbits can be fed diets containing garlic meal for improved performance in terms of growth, better feed utilization and carcass characteristics.