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Abstract
The study was directed in the private Farm at Zagazig City, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. The study was beginning in August 2016 and continued for 13 weeks. A total of 32 of growing New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits (male, aged 8 weeks, and weighted about 1218±36.2 g.) were used in this study. Rabbits have been purchasing from the Rabbit Farm, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University. All experiment procedures were carried out according to the Local Experimental Animal Care Committee and approved by the institutional ethics committee. Rabbits were clinically examined and found to be healthy and free of external and internal parasites. They were kept under the same managerial and hygienic conditions. The rabbits were divided into 4 equal and similar groups (8 in each group). Rabbits in the 1st group were fed the control diet without medicinal plants, while those in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th groups were fed the pelleted diet containing 1.5% ginger, 2% black seed and 1% thyme of these medicinal plants, respectively which were replaced with control diet at the same levels (%) for each diet. Temperature humidity index (THI) averaged 29.39 during summer climates. Therefore, the present study was planned to explore the effects of dietary ginger, thyme and black seed additives on growth performances, physiological, hematological and biochemical responses in heat stressed New Zealand White (NZW) rabbits.