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Table 2 Percentage inclusion levels of dietary ingredients in diets and analysed chemical composition of diets

From: Additive effects of Bridelia ferruginea leaf meal as a partial replacement for soybean meal on nutrients digestibility, growth performance, and carcass characteristics of weaner rabbits

Ingredients

Treatments

T0 (0% BFLM)

T1 (10% BFLM)

T2 (20% BFLM)

T3 (30% BFLM)

Millet mash residue

58

53

50

47

Soybean meal

20

15

10

5

Wheat bran

20

20

20

20

Bridelia leaf meal

0

10

20

30

Dicalcium phosphate

1.0

1.0

1.0

1.0

Vitamin premix

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

Salt

0.5

0.5

0.5

0.5

Total

100

100

100

100

Analysed composition

 Dry matter

90.4

90.1

89.9

90.0

 Crude protein

21.9

21.5

21.2

20.8

 Crude fibre

9.5

10.3

11.0

11.7

 Ether extract

10.7

12.0

12.8

13.7

 Ash

6.1

6.9

7.9

8.4

 Nitrogen free extracts

42.2

39.4

37.0

35.4

 Acid detergent fibre

14.6

15.9

17.7

18.2

 Neutral detergent fibre

32.5

34.9

36.6

38.5

 *Metabolisable energy (Kcal/kg)

3139.9

3132.8

3129.5

3105.4

  1. *Estimated according to Pauzenga (1985): ME (kcal/kg) = (35 × percentage crude protein) + (81.8 × per cent ether extract) + (35.5 × percentage nitrogen free extract)