Resumen de NM 26. Increasing levels of Arachis pintoi (Krap. & Greg.) in fattening rabbit’s mash diets

Duilio Nieves, Leonel Santana, Jose Benaventa

• In order to evaluate the inclusion of increasing levels of Arachis pintoi (AP) in rabbit fattening mash diets, an experiment was carried out at the rabbit production unit of Ezequiel Zamora University, Guanare, Venezuela. Fifty New Zeland White weaning rabbits, were allocated in 5 treatments and 5 replications according to a completely randomized design. The treatments studied were: T1= inclusion of 10 % of AP in the diet, T2= 20 % of AP in the diet, T3= 30 % of AP in the diet, T4= 40 % of AP in the diet and y T5= commercial pelleted diet (control). The results showed that average daily gain was higher (P