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Received: 31 March 2018 Revised: 12 May 2018 Accepted: 9 July 2018 DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.708
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Effect of dietary fiber levels on bacterial composition with age in the cecum of meat rabbits Zhenyu Wu1,2 | Hailiang Zhou3 | Fuchang Li1,2,4 | Nanbin Zhang1,2 | Yanli Zhu1,2,4 1
College of Animal Science and Technology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian City, Shandong Province, China
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Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Animal Biotechnology and Disease Control and Prevention, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian City, Shandong Province, China
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College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian City, Shandong Province, China
Abstract This study investigated the influence of dietary fiber levels on the growth performance, digestion, metabolism, and cecal microbial community of rabbits with different diets at different age. The different levels of dietary natural detergent fiber (NDF) were formulated accordingly: 400(A), 350(B), 300(C), 250(D) g/kg original matter basis, respectively; the different ages were 52, 62, and 72 days. With NDF increasing, the average daily feed intake (ADFI) and feed conversion rate (FCR) were increased, whereas average daily gain (ADG) and mortality were decreased (p
