The effect of restricted feeding and realimentation on growth and carcass composition was studied in two experiments, each using 30 rabbits of the Swedish White Domestic Breed. The rabbits were slaughtered in groups of 5. The restricted feeding started at 1.0 or 1.6 kg live weight respectively, restriction lasting to 2.1 or 2.4 kg. The highest slaughter weight was 3.2 kg. The feed restriction was to 60 p. 100 of the ad libitum consumption of the litter mates at the same age or same weight and realimentation ad libitum or 100 p. 100 respectively. The nutritive value of the pelleted diet was determined in digestibility trials and carcass composition was studied by mincing and chemical analysis of soft tissue.
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Inger Ledin (1984) studied this question.