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Table 6 Effect of diet containing different levels of kitchen food wastes (KFW) on carcass characteristics of growing rabbits

From: Using dried kitchen food wastes as untraditional feed in growing rabbit's diets

Items

Control

Kitchen food wastes (KFW)

SEM

P value

10%

20%

30%

40%

Pre slaughter weight (g)

1761

1786

1743

1872

1562

8.60

0.644

Hot carcass weight (g)

851.00b

887.00ab

896.20ab

909.20a

914.00a

7.55

0.049

Dressing %

54.53c

55.93bc

58.07ab

57.85ab

58.53a

0.42

0.003

Liver (g)

53.82

54.96

50.98

58.36

49.69

1.25

0.845

Kidney (g)

14.24a

13.31ab

13.02b

14.10a

10.82c

0.19

0.028

Spleen (g)

1.03a

0.99ab

0.88b

1.20a

1.02a

0.03

0.062

Heart (g)

5.43

5.38

4.86

5.63

4.77

0.20

0.934

  1. a,b,cMeans with different superscripts in the same row differ significantly (P < 0.05)