Abstracts of the papers dealing with rabbits presented during the 12. Symposium on housing and diseases of rabbits, furbearing animals and pet animals | [Résumés des papiers concernant le lapin présentés au cours du 12. Symposium sur le logement et les maladies du lapin, des animaux à fourrure et des animaux de compagnie]

The papers dealing with rabbits are grouped in different sections: - Reproduction and genetics: Effect of male presence before artificial insemination on receptivity and prolificacy in lactating rabbit does, The effect of birth weight, milk supply and feeding method on growth in rabbits, Selection for the body fat content of the rabbits using the IOBEC method: 1. Effect of the selection on some reproductive traits of rabbit does, 2. Effect of the selection on the body composition of growing rabbits, Genetic parameters for digestive tract traits in rabbits, Effect of increased supplements of vitamins, macro- and micro-elements on milk production of does, Genetic parameters for meat quality traits in rabbits. - Nutrition: The lysosomal enzyme activity in some organs of rabbits on different protein diets. - Ethology, housing and welfare: Investigations on doe-litter-relationship in domestic rabbits under different housing conditions, Some observation on behaviour of nursing does, How the removal of the nest box affects the behaviour and physiology of rabbit does and the mortality and weight gain of their kits, The preference of fattening rabbits for perforated floor and deep litter under different ambient temperatures, Resting and activity behaviour in domestc rabbits in dependence on keeping conditions and day time. - Products and product quality: Effect of slaughter age and sex of fattening rabbits housed in pens on dressing percentage, The fattening of rabbits in pen: effects of housing and gnawing material on performance level and carcass quality, Quality of rabbit meat under the influence of various deepfreezing and thawing temperatures, The contents of heavy metals (cadmium, lead, nickel) in muscles, liver and kidneys of young meat rabbits raised on small family farms in low polluted region of South-Eastern of Poland, Investigation of fatty acid metabolism under physical load means of NMR spectroscopy and gas chromatography on meat type rabbits, Carcass value of young rabbits of different fattened hybrids. - Diseases and disease prophylaxis: Sublimation of tannic additives to diet of fattening rabbit, to reduce mortality after weaning, Diagnostic findings in rabbits with enterocolitis, Prevention of disease through feeding, Evolution of the causal agents of rhinitis contagiosa in rabbits from the nasal mucosa of show rabbits, Investigations on the spread of Salmonellae by show rabbits