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This study was carried out at the teaching and research farm of BowenUniversity, Iwo Nigeria. It was designed to evaluate the performance ofweaner rabbits fed concentrate and plantain leaf at ratio 50:50. Thirtysix crossbred weaner rabbits obtained by crossing Newzealand andChinchilla breeds purchased from Agrited farm Ibadan, Nigeria were usedfor this study .They were divided into nine groups such that eachdietary treatment was replicated thrice. Three dietary treatments wereformulated as the concentrates such that T1 which had maize and otheringredients served as the control while T2 and T3 had their maizeportion replaced separately with malted and unmalted sorghum. Thirtysix weaned eight week old rabbits were fed for a period of forty ninedays which was the duration of the experiment. The feed intake, weightgain, digestibility, blood parameters and economics of raising weanerrabbits on the experimental diets were determined. The dry matterintake varied from 86.64 to 37.16g, the feed conversion ratio (FCR)from 4.09-7.71g.Similar feed intake of rabbit on T1 and T2 indicatedthat malted sorghum could actually replace the maize portion. Thenutrient digestibility of dry matter, crude protein and ether extractwere similar between dietT1 and T2 but higher in T3. The blood analysisindicated that white blood cells (WBC) were significantly affected bythe dietary treatment while red blood cell (RBC), packed cell volume(PCV), glucose, total protein and Albumin were not significantly(P>0.05) affected. Assessment of the carcass characteristics of theweaner rabbit indicated similar carcass weight and dressing percentagefor all the dietary treatments. Final liveweight, kidney weight, headand fur were similar for T1 and T2 but were significantly higher inT3.However, the heart and the lungs were similar among the treatments.Mortality rate of 33.33% was, however, recorded in T3 unmalted sorghumin combination with plantain leaf at 50:50. Market weight of2.5kg/rabbit was attained by 6.46 months for rabbit fed control whichwas earlier than the other diets which were 8.23 and 9.18 months,respectively.

Effects of dietary replacement of maize with malted or unmalted sorghum on the performance of weaner rabbits