Effect of feeding probiotics and/ or Ocimum basilicum seeds on some productive and physiological traits in the local male rabbits | ||
| Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 7, Issue 2, December 2014, Pages 52-60 | ||
| Authors | ||
| T. N. Dawood; M. A. Jumaa | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aimed to find out the effect of feeding probiotics or/and Ocimum basilicum seeds on productivity and physiological traits. Twenty local male rabbits aged 2.0 –4.0 months, with average body weight 1700g. Animals fed on a concentrate pellets diet and green grasses and tap water offered. Rabbits were randomly and equally divided into four groups. All groups were daily fed on a concentrate pellets diet (2%) of body weight, first group (C) as control group, second group (P) fed on the same concentrate pellets and water containing 5mg/kg body weight of probiotics, third group (B) was gives 2% of Ocimum bacillicum seeds (basil seeds) while forth group (PB) was gives 2% of Ocimum bacillicum seeds and water containing 5mg/kg body weight of probiotics. The results revealed that body weight was progressively increased in all groups, but the treated groups showed significantly (p<0.05) better values than the control group. Also the treated groups conducted significantly (p<0.05) higher total gain compared with the control group. Hemoglobin concentration increased with time progress in all groups, significantly (P<0.05) higher values than the control group along most studied periods. While serum glucose levels reduced in all groups, but the treated groups showed significantly (P<0.05) lower values than the control group in late experimental periods. With time progress, serum cholesterol and triglyceride percentages were reduced in all groups, but the control group recorded significantly (p<0.05) higher values than the treated groups, and B and PB groups recorded the lower values than P group. AST enzyme activity in all groups were decreased with time, while the treated groups recorded significantly (P<0.05) lower values compared with the control group along most studied period | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Ocimum basilicum seeds; Probiotics; weight gain; Rabbits | ||
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