EFFECT OF JOJOBA (Simmondsia chinensis) MEAL ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE BROILER RABBITS
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2005
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Karnataka Veterinary Animal And Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar
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Jojoba Simmondsia chinensis is an evergreen native oil seed shrub of India it is grown in some parts of Kutch in Gujarat, Jodhpur and Jaipur in Rajasthan. the Sonora deserts of Arizona, California in the United States and Mexieo . In Jojoba oil meal, a high protein residue, which remains after oil extraction is a potential unconventional protein feed supplement. But, the toxic and anti-nutritional substances make the meal unsuitable for livestock feeding. Boiled Jojoba meal is bitter for humans and has low acceptability in animal diets. Toxicity of the incriminating factors such as simmondsin, simmondsin-2- ferulate and related cyanomethylene glycosides however has never been fully proved nor understood the physiological mechanisms by which these factors bring about adverse effects. Although short time consumption of Jojoba meal produced detrimental effect in animals, long time feeding had shown gradual adaptation to the meal indicating a scope for its use in animal feeding under some circumstance. Hence, additional research is needed to revalidate the dose response effect in farm animals as well as to suggest appropriate feeding system for diets containing Jojoba meal.