The Influence of Gender on Growth Traits of Broiler Rabbits
Keywords:
broiler rabbit, gender, growth rateAbstract
The present study deals with the comparison of the impact of gender on selected production parameters of rabbits in conditions of intensive farming. Followed by an analytical evaluation of live weight differences between male and female hybrid subjects, and a confrontation of observed results with those published in professional and scientific publications. In particular time periods we compared the values of live weight of both sexes. At the 35 days of age live weight of both sexes were almost balanced, but in the 56th day we observed a slight difference in the values of live weight between the sexes. In the last time period, from the 77th to 105th day, the offspring of both sexes reached higher live weight, while we once again identified just small differences in the values of body weight between the two sexes. Over the whole period, we found a slightly higher live weight of males, but the differences between these values are minimal. This means, there is no statistically significant difference between males and females. In terms of statistical significance, we therefore found that the both sexes are growing equally, thus guiding the sex of new-born offspring, is in principle ineffective.
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