Journal of Veterinary Health Science(JVHS)

Department of Animal Science, Kaduna State University, Kafanchan Campus, Kaduna State, Nigeria

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• Research Article   
  Effect of Graded Levels of Sweet Potato Leaves on Haematological and Serum Biochemical Parameters of Rabbits
  Author(s): Mohammed U*, Gambo D, Adua M M and Mallam I
  
  The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of graded levels of sweet potato (Ipomoea batata) leaves (SPL) and pelletized concentrate feed (PCF) on haematological and serum biochemical parameters of rabbits. Thirty-six weaner rabbits comprising of eighteen (18) bucks and does each were used for the experiment. The rabbits were randomly assigned to three dietary treatments in a Completely Randomized Design. Twelve (6 males and females each) rabbits were assigned to each treatment and replicated three times such that each replicate was allocated 4 (2 males and 2 females) rabbits. Rabbits in treatment 1 were fed 100 % sweet potato leaves concentrate while in treatment 2 was fed 50 % concentrate and 50 % sweet potato leaves and treatment 3 was 100 % concentrate. Haematological and serum biochemical parameters data collected were subjected to one-way analysis of variance of the SPSS sta.. Read More»
  

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