Performance of Young Rabbits Fed Graded Levels Dietary Raw Soybean

TLDR: The dietary incorporation of raw soybean had no significant effect on percent weight of spleen, kidney, heart, testes and liver, however, RSB inclusion at 25% level led to gross morphological alterations such as inflamation as well as necrosis...

Abstract: Sese, B.T., Berepubo, N.A. and Ngodigha, E.M. 1996. Performance of young rabbits fed graded levels of dietary raw Soybean. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 9: 89–93. Graded levels (0,5,10,15,20 and 25%) of raw soybean (RSB) were incorporated into six isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets A,B,C,D, E and F, respectively, and fed ad libitum, to forty-eight 6 to 8 weeks old rabbits of the New Zealand white and California strain. Diet A (0% RSB) containing toasted soybean meal served as the control. Feed intake (74.83±7.06 to 79.31±7.55 g/day) and feed efficiency (0.15±0.02 to 0.18±0.03 g gain/g feed) showed no significant difference (P<0.05) among the treatments which resulted in comparable growth rate (11.7±2–17 to 14.0±1.83 g/day) among rabbits on different diets. The dietary incorporation of raw soybean had no significant effect (P<0.05) on percent weight of spleen, kidney, heart, testes and liver. However, RSB inclusion at 25% level led to gross morphological alterations such as inflamation as well as necrosis...