Effect of Sweet Orange Fruit Waste Diets and Acidifier on Haematology and Serum Chemistry of Weanling Rabbits

Table 2

Proximate composition of sweet orange fruit waste.

Nutrient	Sweet orange fruit waste (SOFW)
Dry matter (%)	93.46
Crude protein (%)	6.44
Crude fibre (%)	4.89
Ether extract (%)	17.00
Ash (%)	4.01
Nitrogen free extract (%)	67.66
Neutral detergent fibre (%)	19.11
Acid detergent fibre (%)	17.75
Minerals
Na (%)	0.68
K (%)	0.92
Total Phosphorus (%)	0.11
Ca (%)	0.62
Mg (%)	0.15
^1Metabolizable energy (Kcal/kg)	40.30

¹(37×%CP)+(81.8×%EE)+(35.5×%NFE); Pauzenga (1985).