CASSAVA PEELS AND LEAVES IN THE DIET OF RABBITS: EFFECT ON PERFORMANCE AND CARCASS CHARACTERISTICS

An experiment was conducted using 20 growing rabbits (5 – 6weeks in age) of mixed breeds and sexes with initial weight 500 650g to evaluate the effect replacing maize as a source energy cassava peel meal (CPM) leaf (CLM) their diets. The were randomly allotted five isonitrogenous isoenergetic Each dietary treatment replicated 4-time individually caged rabbits. lasted 56days. Dietary did not have (P > 0.05) on average daily gain, water consumption, feed intake efficiency carcass charactaristics. utilization CPM CLM fortified palm-oil sludge or without amino acid supplementation greatly reduced cost producing unit rabbit < 0.001). It concluded that combination can serve replacement for diets any adverse growth performance characteristics