Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals

A 16 week feeding trial was carried out to investigate the effect of dietary Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) leaf meal (NLM) on body weight gain, linear body measurements and blood chemistry of pre-puberal buck rabbits. Four treatment diets were formulated to contain the NLM at inclusion levels o...

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Autores principales:	Ogbuewu,I.P, Uchegbu,M.C, Okoli,I.C, Iloeje,M.U
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA 2010
Materias:	Neem leaf meal body weight gain blood chemistry linear body measurements buck rabbits
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-583920100003000202018-10-01Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf MealsOgbuewu,I.PUchegbu,M.COkoli,I.CIloeje,M.U Neem leaf meal body weight gain blood chemistry linear body measurements buck rabbits A 16 week feeding trial was carried out to investigate the effect of dietary Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) leaf meal (NLM) on body weight gain, linear body measurements and blood chemistry of pre-puberal buck rabbits. Four treatment diets were formulated to contain the NLM at inclusion levels of 0 (control), 5, 10 and 15%. Thirty six crossbred New Zealand white × Chinchilla pre-puberal buck rabbits aged 5 to 6 mo were divided into four groups of nine rabbits and each group was further replicated into three of three rabbits each. The rabbits were randomly assigned to the four dietary treatments. Lymphocyte count of rabbits fed control diet (8.32 × 10(9) mm-3) was significantly higher than the group fed 15% NLM (4.60 × 10(9) mm-3). The mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) and mean cell volume (MCV) of the control bucks were significantly (p < 0.05) higher than those fed 5% NLM. The neutrophils count of bucks fed 15% NLM (0.95 × 10(9) mm-3) was significantly (p < 0.05) different from the groups fed 0% NLM (2.08 × 10(9) mm-3), 5% NLM (2.69 × 10(9) mm-3) and 10% (2.13 × 10(9) mm-3). All the other parameters measured were similar (p > 0.05) among the treatment groups. The results suggest that buck rabbits could tolerate up to 15% dietary inclusion of NLM without deleterious effects on body weight gain, linear body measurements and some hematological parameters.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAChilean journal of agricultural research v.70 n.3 20102010-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-58392010000300020en10.4067/S0718-58392010000300020
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spellingShingle	Neem leaf meal body weight gain blood chemistry linear body measurements buck rabbits Ogbuewu,I.P Uchegbu,M.C Okoli,I.C Iloeje,M.U Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
description	A 16 week feeding trial was carried out to investigate the effect of dietary Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) leaf meal (NLM) on body weight gain, linear body measurements and blood chemistry of pre-puberal buck rabbits. Four treatment diets were formulated to contain the NLM at inclusion levels of 0 (control), 5, 10 and 15%. Thirty six crossbred New Zealand white × Chinchilla pre-puberal buck rabbits aged 5 to 6 mo were divided into four groups of nine rabbits and each group was further replicated into three of three rabbits each. The rabbits were randomly assigned to the four dietary treatments. Lymphocyte count of rabbits fed control diet (8.32 × 10(9) mm-3) was significantly higher than the group fed 15% NLM (4.60 × 10(9) mm-3). The mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) and mean cell volume (MCV) of the control bucks were significantly (p < 0.05) higher than those fed 5% NLM. The neutrophils count of bucks fed 15% NLM (0.95 × 10(9) mm-3) was significantly (p < 0.05) different from the groups fed 0% NLM (2.08 × 10(9) mm-3), 5% NLM (2.69 × 10(9) mm-3) and 10% (2.13 × 10(9) mm-3). All the other parameters measured were similar (p > 0.05) among the treatment groups. The results suggest that buck rabbits could tolerate up to 15% dietary inclusion of NLM without deleterious effects on body weight gain, linear body measurements and some hematological parameters.
author	Ogbuewu,I.P Uchegbu,M.C Okoli,I.C Iloeje,M.U
author_facet	Ogbuewu,I.P Uchegbu,M.C Okoli,I.C Iloeje,M.U
author_sort	Ogbuewu,I.P
title	Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
title_short	Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
title_full	Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
title_fullStr	Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
title_full_unstemmed	Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals
title_sort	assessment of blood chemistry, weight gain and linear body measurements of pre-puberal buck rabbits fed different levels of neem (azadirachta indica a. juss.) leaf meals
publisher	Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA
publishDate	2010
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Assessment of Blood Chemistry, Weight Gain and Linear Body Measurements of Pre-Puberal Buck Rabbits Fed Different Levels of Neem (Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) Leaf Meals

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