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Nowdays, there is an increasing&nbsp; interest in public health issue due to consumption of healthy and nutritive food, e.i. rich in proteins, low in cholesterol and lipid contents. The aim of this study was to examine if oregano, sage and <em>Eleutherococcus senticosus</em> extracts, commercial Xtract as well can influence microbial status of rabbit meat after their supplementation of rabbit feed. Reduction of enterococci, coagulase-negative staphylococci and <em>Staphylococcus aureus </em>after feed supplementation by the sage and oregano was more detectable at the end of the experiment (at day 42) than after their application (at day 21). In animals with Xtract addition, antibacterial effect has been noted already at day 21. Our <em>in vivo</em> results confirmed <em>in vitro</em> antibacterial effect of the tested extracts and showed that maintaining of rabbit meat quality by plant extracts is very promising.<br /><br /><strong>doi:10.5219/213</strong>