https://goodwoodpub.com/index.php/aas <p align="justify">Annals of Animal Studies (AAS) is an international open-access journal publishing original scientific papers and reviews on areas of animal science. The AAS journal welcomes high-quality and innovative papers related to all fields of animal science aimed at advancing and developing knowledge of the fauna world.</p> Goodwood Publishing en-US Annals of Animal Studies <p>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</p> <ol> <li class="show">Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a&nbsp;<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0)</a>&nbsp;that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</li> <li class="show">Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.</li> <li class="show">Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.</li> </ol> https://goodwoodpub.com/index.php/aas/article/view/770 <p><strong>Purpose:</strong> This study aimed to determine the reproductive traits of rabbit fed varying levels of Ipomea asarifolia leaf meal in the semi-arid zone of Nigeria.</p> <p><strong>Research methodology</strong>: Fourty (40) nulliparous composite grower rabbits of 10 - 12 weeks with an average body weight of 1,320 g + 20 g were used for the study. The rabbits were allocated to five dietary treatments. The research used a Completely Randomized Design in allocating the experimental animals with eight rabbits in each treatment.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> The results obtained in this study indicated that inclusion Ipomoea asarifolia leaf meal at 10% in rabbits' diet had a negative effect as it increased the gestation length. Rabbits fed a 7.5% IALM based diet yielded the best results on litter size (LS) and conception rate (CR). The post-partum performance revealed that kittens on treatment three (5% IALM) performed better in weight at day 7 (61.47 g) and day 21 (235.33 g), respectively. Whereas kittens in treatment five (10% IALM) were reported with the highest daily weight gain (10.09 g) and pre-weaning mortality (38.84%). Does fed 10% IALM based diet performed better (720.10 g) in milk yield. The results of the morphometric traits were mostly not affected by an increased level of MGLM except for tail length (TL), length of the front leg (LFL), and shoulder to tail drop (STT) that have the highest value in rabbits fed 5% MGLM based diet, and nose to shoulder (NTS) and length of the back leg (LBL) that had highest figures in rabbits fed 10% MGLM.</p> <p><strong>Limitations:</strong> This research only focused on the effect of the test material on reproductive traits and body Morphometry, yet there might be an effect on blood parameters and serum hormones concentration.</p> <p><strong>Contribution:</strong> This research will help the farmers involved in Animal production.</p> Munnir Mukhtar Getso Alhassan Musa Hassan Muazu Shuaibu Tamburawa Mudassir Nasir Copyright (c) 2022 Munnir Mukhtar Getso, Alhassan Musa Hassan, Muazu Shuaibu Tamburawa, Mudassir Nasir 2022-02-25 2022-02-25 1 1 1 13 10.35912/jasq.v1i1.770