Abstract:
Today the promoters of growth based on antibiotics and growth hormones are not regarded as acceptable products for the maintenance of health, viability, and improvement of production performance of animals and thus the elaboration, testing, and usage of new and harmless ecologically pure products for both humans and animals become required. Thus the given study aims to determine the influence of the algal BioR remedy on young rabbits. The experiment involved 4 groups with 7 rabbits each, from the moment of weaning. The young rabbits from 3 experimental groups received the BioR remedy in different doses (0,1 ‐ 0,5‐1,0 ml/head) and those from the control group ‐1,0 ml physiological serum. The product tested was given to 3 times: on the day of weaning, on the 14th day an don the 26th day after weaning. Blood samples were taken from 5 rabbits before injection and from 5 rabbits from each group at the end of the study. It was established that, in the course of the 3 months of the study, the BioR remedy did not cause any adverse reactions or other health or development deviations in young rabbits. Biochemical tests of blood samples of rabbits involved in the BioR treatment before slaughter show a decrease of general bilirubin and conjugated (direct) bilirubin, and signal a moderate increase of unconjugated (indirect) bilirubin by 12,6 ‐19,1% as compared to the reference group. At the same time, the BioR remedy did not bring up a modification of transaminases ALT and AST in the groups examined while a slight increase of the ALT test by 7,9 ‐ 18,4% was observed in experimental groups, which may be regarded as positive in young rabbits. Thus the results obtained denote the harmlessness of the remedy as well as its beneficial effect on the organism, particularly on the liver.
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