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Considering the nutritional requirements of growing rabbits, the inclusion of lipid sources in diet, besides improving pellet quality, helps to meet the energy demands of the animals, as the adjustment of voluntary feed intake by rabbits is primarily controlled by the energy content of the diet (Gidenne et al., 2017). As the energy content of lipid sources is almost three times that other feedstuffs commonly used, the inclusion of oils and fats in rabbit diets allows a greater share of ingredients with higher fibre contents to be included, such as by-products from food and feed processing industries (Klinger et al., 2015).