Table 3. Effect of gestational maternal undernutrition on carcass quality parameters of rabbit offsprings (n = 16).

		Treatment 1
	C	EU	LU	pooled SE	p-value
Carcass weights (g)
Live weight	2680	2664	2757	51	0.579
Hot Carcass	1732	1715	1755	28	0.801
Cold carcass	1690	1668	1705	27	0.840
Reference weight	1380	1357	1398	22	0.863
Dressing percentage (%)	63.2	62.6	61.9	0.8	0.650
Carcass parts weights (g)
Head	143	142	143	3	0.854
Front	511	507	516	12	0.880
Middle	317	293	321	9	0.369
Rear	554	551	564	10	0.526
Hind leg	232	229	239	7	0.899
Fore leg	100	96	100	3	0.704
Internal organs weights (g)
Liver	100	100	102	4	0.748
Perirenal fat	18	21	17	1	0.567
Kidneys	18	16	17	0.5	0.569
Lungs & heart	30	30	27	1	0.499
Spleen	1.7	1.5	1.7	0.1	0.680
Dissection weights (g)
Fore leg
Meat	64.1	61.5	60.2	2.4	0.447
Bone	18.8	17.6	15.9	0.7	0.689
Fat	4.3	7.1	6.7	1.3	0.565
Hind leg
Meat	169	177	172	5	0.528
Bone	31.7	32.7	34.3	1.6	0.803
Fat	4.4	3.4	4.1	1.0	0.516

¹ C = rabbits born from does fed to 100% of maintenance energy requirements;

EU = rabbits born from does fed to 50% of maintenance energy requirements from day 7 to day 19 of gestation;

LU = rabbits born from does fed to 50% of maintenance energy requirements from day 20 to day 27 of gestation.