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Productive performance, digestibility, carcass traits and meat quality in rabbits fed triticale-based diets supplemented with xylanase

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Cereals such as triticale may contain high levels of xylans and arabinoxylans, limiting its use in diets since they act as anti-nutritional factors. The objective was to evaluate the effects of the enzyme xylanase included in triticale-based diets on productive performance, digestibility, carcass traits and meat quality in growing-finishing rabbits. Eighty rabbits (New Zealand X California breed), 35 days old, with an average initial live weight of 821 ± 26 g, were used. Twenty animals for treatment were used in each one of the fourth experimental treatments: 0, 4000, 8000 and 12,000 XU/kg of xylanase inclusion (XilaBlend 6X). The rabbits were fed ad libitum and fecal excretion was collected on days 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 of the experimental period. At the end of the experimental period, the rabbits were slaughtered and carcass characteristics and meat quality were measured. A higher (P < 0.05) live weight was observed in rabbits fed diets with the addition of xylanase enzyme on days 4 and 7 of the experimental period. On the other hand, in the average total tract digestibility of organic matter, no significant difference was observed, similar to what occurred in the carcass traits and nutritional quality of the meat. The inclusion of 8000 XU/kg of xylanase enzyme provided the best values of apparent digestibility of total tract protein and dry matter on the finished stage of rabbits.

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  1. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México. Campus Universitario “El Cerrillo”, Estado de México, Toluca, CP. 50090, Mexico

    Johana Paola Galeano-Díaz, Juan Edrei Sánchez-Torres, Ignacio Arturo Domínguez-Vara, Ernesto Morales-Almaraz & Benjamín Valladarez-Carranza

  2. Facultad de Estudios Superiores Cuautitlán, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Cd.Mx, México

    Ernesto Morales-Almaraz

  3. Departamento de Ganadería, Estado de México, Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, México, México

    Jacinto Efrén Ramírez-Bribiesca

  4. Departamento de Ciencias de los Alimentos. Unidad Lerma, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Lerma de Villada, México

    Rosy Gabriela Cruz-Monterrosa

  5. Instituto de Ciencias Agrícolas, Departamento de Nutrición Animal, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexicali, Baja California, México

    Miguel Cervantes-Ramírez

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Johana Paola Galeano-Díaz: Investigation, Writing-Original Draft; Juan Edrei Sánchez-Torres: Proyect Design and Supervision, Investigation, Supervision, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review and editing; Germán Isauro Garrido-Fariña: Methodology, Project administration and Supervision; Ignacio Arturo Domínguez-Vara: Proyect Design and Supervision, Project administration, Writing - review and editing; Ernesto Morales-Almaraz: Supervision, Writing - review and editing; Jacinto Efren Ramírez-Bribiesca: Supervision, Writing - review and editing; Rosy Gabriela Cruz-Monterrosa: Writing - review and editing; Miguel Cervantes Ramirez: Proyect Design and Supervision, review, Benjamin Valladarez-Carranza: Writing - review and editing.

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Galeano-Díaz, J.P., Sánchez-Torres, J.E., Domínguez-Vara, I.A. et al. Productive performance, digestibility, carcass traits and meat quality in rabbits fed triticale-based diets supplemented with xylanase. Trop Anim Health Prod 56, 117 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-024-03958-4

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