Castellar Furió, José Francisco(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-04)
[ES] El alojamiento de las conejas reproductoras está en continua discusión en los últimos años dada la presión social en ciertos países para alojar a estos animales en grupos. No obstante, el alojamiento en grupo presenta ...
[EN] The aim of this research was to study the effects of group size and environmental enrichment on behaviour and growth of 108 hybrid growing rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus). We compared the behaviour (time budget and ...
[EN] The investigation was carried out with altogether 511 caged growing rabbits (ZIKA) in 4 rounds with a duration of 8 wk each. Animals were housed at 35 d in collective cages (n=16; 0.625 m2 /rabbit), half of them ...
Marín, Clara; Simarro-Catalá, Laura; Villagrá, Arantxa(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-28)
[EN] The present work tries to determine the best location of wooden sticks for environmental enrichment, considering usage and level of contamination as variables. A total of 540 rabbits at 4 wk of age were caged in 60 ...
[EN] The aim of our study was to examine the influence of wooden sticks for gnawing as environmental enrichment on fattening, carcass and meat quality traits of growing rabbits. Forty-eight rabbits of SIKA sire line ...