Enhancing growing rabbit heat stress resilience through dietary supplementation with natural antioxidants

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 4 Effects of dietary different sources of antioxidants supplementation on carcass traits and chemical composition of growing rabbits exposed to heat stress conditions

Variables	Experimental groups¹					SEM	P-value
Variables	CON	VE40	VC5	LYC150	AL150	SEM	P-value
Pre-slaughter (g)	1927.20	1980.00	1985.00	1985.20	1962.20	22.08	0.32
Dressing (%)	57.03^b	57.61^b	57.81^b	59.17^ab	60.88^a	0.86	0.03
Fore (%)	28.69	26.85	26.53	26.40	25.91	0.86	0.22
Loin (%)	21.95	21.83	21.70	21.35	21.01	0.73	0.88
Hind (%)	31.79	32.02	32.12	32.15	32.08	0.41	0.97
Toe (%)	17.56	19.29	19.65	20.09	21.00	1.45	0.56
Chemical composition (%)
Crude protein (%)	18.49	18.44	18.41	18.47	18.45	0.57	1.00
Fat (%)	3.60	3.52	3.51	3.59	3.52	0.11	0.96
Ash (%)	1.95	1.97	1.96	1.96	1.97	0.06	0.99

^ac Means not sharing a common superscript in a row are significantly different (P < 0.05). ¹ Growing rabbit fed basal diet without feed additive (CON group and serve as HS group) or fed diets with 40 mg of vitamin E (VE40), 5 mg of vitamin c (VC5), 150 mg of lycopene (LYC150) or 150 mg/kg diet of allicin (AL150) for 8 weeks during natural heat stress

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