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TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ewuola, E. O
AU  - Gbore , F. A
AU  - Ogunlade , J. T
AU  - Egbunike , G. N
PY  - 2021/01/16
Y2  - 2026/09/17
TI  - Performance of weaned male rabbits fed varied levels of dietary fumonisin B1
JF  - Nigerian Journal of Animal Production
JA  - NJAP
VL  - 39
IS  - 1
SE  - Articles
DO  - 10.51791/njap.v39i1.2267
UR  - https://www.njap.org.ng/index.php/njap/article/view/2267
SP  - 146 - 152
AB  - &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;In a si&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;x-w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;eek feeding trial, a total of 48 crossbred weaned male rabbits of 7 weeks old were randomly allotted to four dietary treatments, with 12 replicates per treatment to determine growth indices and nutrient digestibility of rabbits fed fumonisin-contaminated diets. Maize grains contaminated with fumonisin B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; were incorporated into rabbit diets excluding the control diet (treatment 1, 0.13mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;), at varied inclusion levels of 5.0mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;, 7.5mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; and 10.0mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; fumonisin B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;, constituting treatments 2, 3 and 4 respectively. The results showed that the average final live weight of rabbits fed treatments 3 and 4 were significantly (P&amp;lt;0.05) lower than those fed treatment 2 and the control. The average daily dry matter intake of the animals fed the dietary treatments was not significantly different. The mean daily weight gain of rabbits fed 5.0mg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;k&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;g&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;, 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;.5mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; and 10.0mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; ho&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;ever declined significantly (P&amp;lt;0.05) by 91.23, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;3.92 and 81.88% respectively, relative to the mean daily &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;eight gain of 12.31g/rabbit/day of animals fed the control diet. The result further showed that digestibility of the nutrients of the experimental diets except crude protein, were similar among the treatments. The crude protein digestibility of rabbits fed 7.5mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;and 10.0mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;ere identical but significantly (P&amp;lt;0.05) lower than those fed 5.0mgKg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;-1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt; and the control diet. This suggests inhibition of nitrogen utilization and depressed performance in the animals fed diets containing ≥ 5.0mg fumonisin B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;/Kg. Diets containing up to 7.5 mg fumonisin B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: 400;&quot;&gt;/Kg will depress live weight and daily weight gain as a result of reduced protein utilization in weaned rabbits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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