ABSTRACT

Weaning age is an important event that affects the growth and health of weaned animals which has many impacts on mortality and growth traits. An experiment was conducted to study genotype (G) and weaning age (WA) interaction (G×WA) effects on growth traits of the animals belonged to two lines of rabbit (APRI and V line) reared under Egyptian conditions. Multiparous rabbit does were serviced to obtain 225 litters with 1800 young rabbits at weaning. The weaning ages ranged from 26 to 43 days where the young rabbits were weaned at different ages (≥28d (WA 1 ); 28 < T ≥ 35d (WA 2 ); 35 < T ≥ 40d (WA 3 ) and 40