Dietary replacement of soybean meal by different varieties of narrow-leaved lupine seed in fattening rabbits: Effects on growth, nutrient digestion, hydrolytic activities of pancreatic enzymes, nitrogen balance, and nitrogen excretion

ŠUFLIARSKÝ, Peter, TAUBNER, Tomáš, POHLOVÁ, Linda, ZITA, Lukáš and VOLEK, Zdeněk. Dietary replacement of soybean meal by different varieties of narrow-leaved lupine seed in fattening rabbits: Effects on growth, nutrient digestion, hydrolytic activities of pancreatic enzymes, nitrogen balance, and nitrogen excretion. Animal Feed Science and Technology, 2026, , . ISSN 0377-8401.
Year2026
CathegoryScientific publication in impacted journals
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Abstract

The efficacy of narrow-leaved lupine seeds (NLLs) as a dietary crude protein (CP) source compared to soybean meal (SBM) was evaluated in terms of growth performance, nutrient digestion, digestive enzyme activity, nitrogen (N) balance, and N retention in fattening rabbits. The SBM diet contained 60 g/kg SBM, whereas the other diets contained 110 g/kg of different NLL varieties (Boregine, NLLB diet; Jowicz, NLLJ diet; and Rumba, NLLR diet).