P. Arveux

TL;DR: The favourable effect of a lower intake on health did not persist after returning to ad libitum intake (54 days to slaughter), since mortality and morbidity were not significantly different among the treatments, and such a feeding strategy represents a double benefit in terms of feed costs and lower losses of young rabbits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the performance and digestive response of the growing rabbit according to a change in the nature of the lignocellulose (ADF), without a change of the ADF level, was evaluated.

TL;DR: Au total, 2 328 lapins en croissance ont ete mis en experience dans six stations experimentales, afin d'etudier les effets d'un apport croissant d'amidon en substitution de fibres digestibles, sur les performances de croissance et the mortalite au cours of the periode d'engraissement.

TL;DR: Between weaning and slaughter, morbidity and mortality rates were significantly reduced with high-fibre diets, while the replacement of DF by starch had no significant effect and the weight gain was only slightly higher for high starch (low DF) diets, without an effect of the ADF level.

TL;DR: The effects of the quality of the dietary starch on growth performance and mortality were studied on five experimental sites on 1784 growing rabbits and feed conversion was the worst for the M diet, while it was the lowest for the EM diet.