Productivity of Young Cross Does at Over Two Kilograms of Liveweight.

Abstract

An experiment was carried out to estimate the characteristics of production of young cross does that mated over 2 kg of liveweight, with the diifereat quantity of consentrate. The experiment had been done in Laboratory of Small Ruminant Faculty of Animal Husbandary, Bogor Agricultural University on March - August 2000. Eight young cross does with an average liveweight of 1.574,375 ± 113 g, were grouped into 2 different quantity of consentrate. The fist treatment (Rl) was given concentrate of 100 g/d/doe and 50 g/d/doe for the second treatment (R2). The mating was conducted when liveweight of rabbit gained over 2 kg and recorded as the mate weight. The obseived parameters including daily weight gain, mate weight, long of pregnancy, litter size, litter weight at buth and moitality at thee weeks. It was also studied the feed treatments toward daily dry feed intake, feed convertion, litter growth and physical condition of does. All data were explained by descriptive analysis. T-test statistical was used to learn correlation among mate weight, litter size, litter born weight and mortality at each treatments (Gaspersz, 1991).