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The experiment was conducted under rural condition over a period of October, 2001 to February, 2002 to see the effect of concentrate supp!ementation on the reproductive performances of meat type rabbit. Sixteen female New Zealand White crossbred aged about 3.5 to 4.5 months, weighing on average 9.5 to 13.0 kg were assigned randomly into two feeding regimes, Ti (farmers own diet ) and T2 (farmers own diet + concentrate' 75 g/day) with four replications, in a complete randomized design (CAD). All animals had free access to the locally available green grass. The percent of does kidded, gestation Period, litter size and individual kit weight at birth were similar (13>0.05) irrespective of level of treatments. The litter weight (g) and individual kit weight (g) at weaning, daily average weight gain of kit and kit mortality up to weaning differed significantly (P<0.01) and the mean values were 969.30±99.13 vs. 427.11±105.97, 408.12±3.85 vs. 310.62±3.56, 352.62±2.65 vs. 255.75±2.76 and 26.92±10.70 vs. 45.00±10.07 for T2 and Ti groups, 'respectively. These results reveal that supplementation of concentrate (75 g/d) in addition to adlibitum green grass may improve reproductive performance of rabbit under rural condition.

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