Environmental enrichment changes rabbits' behavior, serum hormone level and further affects cecal microbiota

Y Feng, H Fan, X Liang, X Wang, G Gao, S Gun - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Many studies have shown that stress is associated with gut microbiota. Environmental
enrichment (EE) could reduce stress in farm animals; however, limited information is …

Investigations on the influence of floor design on dirtiness and foot pad lesions in growing rabbits

T Masthoff, S Hoy - Animals, 2019 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The German animal welfare requirements for rabbit housing did not take
into account scientific results on the design of the floor. So, a maximum slot width of 11 mm …

Effects of boldenone undecylenate on growth performance, maintenance behaviour, reproductive hormones and carcass traits of growing rabbits

HH Mohammed, ME Badawi… - Polish Journal of …, 2016 - journals.pan.pl
The present study was done to evaluate the effect of boldenone undecylenate (BOL) on
growth performance, maintenance behaviour, reproductive hormones and carcass traits of …

Growth performance, carcass traits, behaviour and welfare of New Zealand White rabbits housed in different enriched cages

H Mohammed, M Nasr - Animal Production Science, 2016 - CSIRO Publishing
The present study investigated the effect of gnawing sticks as environmental enhancers on
the performance, carcass traits and behaviour of individually housed growing rabbits. Two …

Gnawing Sticks and Sibling Ameliorative Effects on Growing Rabbits' Behavior, Production, and Stress Level under Barren Environment.

AA Ali - Alexandria Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
Environmental enrichment could lower stress in farm animals; however, inadequate data is
offered on the level of productivity and welfare indicators in rabbits reared with or without …

Severe maternal undernutrition and post-weaning behavior of rabbits

PE Simitzis, GK Symeon, AP Kominakis, IA Bizelis… - Physiology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
The objective of the present experiment was to investigate the implications of severe
maternal undernutrition on the post-weaning behavior of rabbits. Thirty two does were …

Effect of prenatal overfeeding on the growth performance and postweaning behavioral parameters in rabbits

P Simitzis, A Kiriakopoulos, G Symeon… - Journal of Veterinary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Does are usually fed ad libitum during pregnancy, a fact that can result in intrauterine
overfeeding and can have detrimental effects on embryonic programming with permanent …

環境豐富化對籠飼紐西蘭白兔行為健康與生長性狀之影響

蔡佩均, 蔡銘洋, 李恒夫, 陳立人 - 畜產研究, 2020 - airitilibrary.com
本試驗目的在於建立友善飼養環境的相關數據, 減少實驗動物飼養時的緊迫,
以確保可靠的動物試驗結果. 試驗以4 週齡兔共36 隻(公母各半), 分別圈養於豐富化兔籠(EN) …

Growth performance, carcass characteristics, haematology and serum biochemistry of rabbit bucks fed diets containing graded levels of neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf …

OY Ayo-Ajasa, LT Egbeyale, JA Abiona… - Nigerian Journal of …, 2020 - ajol.info
Abstract Twenty-four (24) rabbit bucks of mixed breeds, with initial average live weight of
1975g were used to investigate the effect of Neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf meal (NLM) on …

STUDYING CAECOTROPHY BEHAVIOUR (COMPLETE AND CENSORED) IN THREE RABBIT BREEDS AT FOUR SEASONS USING DIFFERENT SURVIVAL …

F ABDALLAH, HS GHARIB - Assiut Veterinary Medical Journal, 2024 - avmj.journals.ekb.eg
Studying different rabbit behaviour is helpful in the management and breeding process.
Caecotrophy behaviour and the time taken by animals to do it is an important point to be …