Table 3 Effect of dietary levels of garden cress seeds on some reproductive parameters of doe rabbits.

Parameters	Garden cress seeds (%)				SEM	P value
Parameters	0	3	4.5	6	SEM	Treat	Linear	Quadratic	Cubic
Litter size, no at:
Birth	8.00^c	11.33^a	8.50^bc	9.60^b	0.36	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001	0.0001
7th day	3.75^b	8.50^a	5.75^b	6.00^ab	0.56	0.009	0.004	0.014	0.014
14th day	2.75^b	7.00^a	4.75^ab	5.60^a	0.52	0.018	0.012	0.020	0.020
21st day	2.50	6.50	4.50	4.80	0.55	0.058	0.033	0.065	0.065
28th day	2.25	5.83	3.75	4.80	0.42	0.115	0.679	0.670	0.067
Pre-weaning mortality (0–28 days)	5.75	5.50	4.25	4.80	0.42	0.652	0.722	0.482	0.48
Litter weight, g. at:
Birth	483.75	527.50	498.75	458.00	8.48	0.178	0.106	0.236	0.236
7th day	511.67^b	801.67^a	665.00^a	667.00^a	31.16	0.005	0.002	0.011	0.011
14th day	571.67^c	1045.00^a	720.00^bc	857.00^ab	52.46	0.003	0.003	0.001	0.001
21st day	750.00^b	1393.3^a	958.75^ab	1126.00^ab	83.26	0.033	0.015	0.014	0.014
28th day	905.00	1713.30	1187.5	1511.00	127.53	0.147	0.091	0.053	0.053

SEM stander error means.
Means with different superscripts in the same row are significantly different (p < 0.05).

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