Table 3.

Effects of dietary turmeric and curcumin in rabbit nutrition.

Types	Animal Category and Duration of Exposure	Diet Preparation and Experimental Design	Experimental Findings	Source
Turmeric	84-weeks-old weaned broiler rabbits/ 8 weeks of trial	Three treatment groups: basal diet, basal diet added with turmeric rhizome powder, turmeric rhizome powder (TRP)at 0.15% or 0.30% in the diets	no beneficial effect of dietary TRP on blood biochemical and meat characteristics of broiler rabbits reared under summer stress	[110]
Curcumin	8-months-old New Zealand white rabbits/ 42 days of trial	Total 24 rabbits in four groups: control diet, control diet with 10, 25 and 40 mg aqueous extract of curcumin /kg body weight	curcumin decreased Eimeria spp. oocysts excretion efficiently at a dose of 40 mg/kg BW with 80.1%, 63.7% and 64.9% for days 28, 35 and 42, respectively, with reducing concentration of eggs per gram of feces with about 20.1, 15.6 and 17.8 for days 14, 21 and 35, respectively	[30]