Rabbits' productive, reproductive and physiological performance traits as affected by heat stress: a review

IFM Marai, AAM Habeeb, AE Gad - Livestock production science, 2002 - Elsevier
Rabbits are very susceptible to heat stress, since they have few functional sweat glands and
have difficulty in eliminating excess body heat, when the environmental temperature is high …

Mortality in young rabbits: A review

AA Rashwan, IFM Marai - World rabbit science, 2000 - polipapers.upv.es
Mortality rate of young rabbits is of vital importance in commercial rabbit farming, since it
determines the net income of the rabbitries. However, there is no definite proportion for …

Growth performance and reproductive traits at first parity of New Zealand White female rabbits as affected by heat stress and its alleviation under Egyptian conditions

IFM Marai, MS Ayyat, UM Abd El-Monem - Tropical animal health and …, 2001 - Springer
Exposing growing and adult New Zealand White (NZW) female rabbits to severe heat stress
(temperature–humidity index= 28.9) during summer adversely affected their growth and …

[PDF][PDF] Reproductive performance traits as affected by heat stress and its alleviation in sheep

IFM Marai, AA El-Darawany, A Fadiel… - Tropical and …, 2008 - redalyc.org
Exposure of sheep to heat stress evokes a series of drastic changes in the biological
functions which include decrease in feed intake efficiency and utilization, live body weight …

[PDF][PDF] Influence of elevated ambient temperature upon some physiological measurements of New Zealand White rabbits.

L Ondruska, J Rafay, AB Okab, MA Ayoub… - 2011 - academia.edu
This study was conducted to investigate the effect of heat stress (ie, elevated ambient
temperature–Ta; 36 C±3 C) on growth performance, mortality rate, and on some …

[PDF][PDF] Buffaloes reproductive and productive traits as affected by heat stress

IFM Marai, AAM Habeeb - Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2010 - redalyc.org
The reproductive traits of buffaloes are affected by climatic changes. In some areas of the
world, buffaloes breed throughout the year, but more so in some seasons and a little less in …

Rabbits behavioural response to climatic and managerial conditions–a review

IFM Marai, AA Rashwan - Archives Animal Breeding, 2004 - aab.copernicus.org
The domestic rabbit is deprived of the protection of burrows and of a social hierarchy and
live in a limited space which is a fraction of a metre of a hard sanitized space, removed from …

[PDF][PDF] Biological functions in young pregnant rabbit does as affected by heat stress and lighting regime under subtropical conditions of Egypt

IFM Marai, AAM Haeeb, AE Gad - Tropical and Subtropical …, 2007 - redalyc.org
The present work was planned to study the effects of different lighting regimes under both
mild and hot subtropical environmental conditions of Egypt on New Zealand White (NZW) …

The role of vitamin E or clay in growing Japanese quail fed diets polluted by cadmium at various levels

DE Abou-Kassem, KM Mahrose, M Alagawany - Animal, 2016 - cambridge.org
This study was conducted to verify whether vitamin (Vit) E or natural clay as feed additives
has the potential to modulate the deleterious effects resulting from exposure to cadmium …

Reproductive traits of male rabbits as affected by climatic conditions, in the subtropical environment of Egypt

IFM Marai, AM Habeeb, AE Gad - Animal science, 2003 - cambridge.org
The present work was planned to study the effects of mild and hot conditions on reproductive
traits of male rabbits. The traits studied were libido (reaction time), semen quality …