INTRODUCTION Acacia macracantha is a tropical legume that grows in semi-arid areas of Venezuela and is consumed by grazing goats, using its foliage, which can be up to 34.3% crude protein (CP) and 71.9% cell wall digesting 81.9% of dry matter (DM) of diets with up to 37.5% of the DM of the foliage (Nouel et al., 2006). That forage potential has suggested that it is possible to be used in rations for rabbits, finding that has secondary compounds that may affect the digestibility and the same can be neutralized or mitigated by various techniques as reported by Romero et al. (2010). Because forage potential was evaluate A. macracantha is proposed soaking methods at various temperatures levels to reduce the presence of secondary compounds as reports Makkar (2003), attempting to reduce these factors affecting the digestion and utilization growing rabbits. Acacia macracantha is a tropical legume that grows in semi-arid areas of Venezuela and is consumed by grazing goats, using its foliage and mature pods, which can be up to 13.4% crude protein (CP) and 46.1% cell wall digesting 81.9% of dry matter (DM) of diets with up to 37.5% of the DM of the foliage (Nouel and Rincon, 2005). That energy and protein of pods feed potential has suggested that it is possible to be used in rations for rabbits, finding that has …show more content…
macracantha. All evaluated temperatures reduced the content of these, but the lowest temperature was more effective, as well as the 6 hour soaking time proved the more effective to attenuate higher proportion of secondary compounds, to perform statistical analyzes found significant interaction effect soaking time vs soaking temperature, making the most effective combination to attenuate all compounds was determined 6 h and temperature of 25 °C, with greater effect in the condensable tannins. These results enabled the selection of such treatment for metabolic and production