Evaluación de un alimento peletizado a base de forraje para conejos en fase de levante y ceba en la Granja Experimental Villa Marina.

Abstract

One of the main disadvantages of the cunicola production, derives from the high cost for the concept of supplementation based on commercial foods, which makes it necessary to exploit other food alternatives at low cost. The objective of the present study is to evaluate a pellet feed based on fodder for rabbits in the uprising and fattening phase in the Villa Marina Experimental Farm. Different forages were included in the production of the pellets such as Yatago (Trichanthera gigantea), Golden Button (Tithonia diversifolia), Clon51 (Pennisetun sp), Chachafruto (Erythrina edulis) And other low-cost ingredients at which were made a protein balance by Pearson method, taking into account theoretical bromatological, after the balance was made, the necessary percentages of each ingredient were taken and the pellets were manufactured manually. The processed pellets were sent to the Animal Nutrition Laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics at the University of Tolima who threw as a result: a dry matter of 94.00% and a crude protein 16.41% among other variants that were indispensable for the conclusions of this investigation. Three treatments each with 5 animals were managed for a total of 15 animals, which included a control group who were fed 100% commercial balanced feed, the second group with 50% commercial balanced feed and 50% feed based feed, and finally the third group with 100% feed based on forage, who during the 7 weeks of food supply showed different results that were taken through weekly weighing. Different productive parameters were measured which included weight gain in which the best average was presented by the witness with a total weight of 1,720 grams, food conversion where it was observed that the best result was evidenced by treatment 1 with an average of 2,13 , and finally the food efficiency which presented the best result with the witness with an average of 0.36. A descriptive statistic test, analysis of variance, was applied using the Tukey test p <0.05. The parameters evaluated did not show significant statistical differences (P> 0.05). The channel performance was varied, with the control predominant with 52.50%. The value of kg of rabbit meat for food was estimated at $ 5,083 with the supply of forage-based pellets at 100%, being cheaper than treatment 1 and the control at $ 1,533 and $ 3,327 respectively. The results show that the forage-based pellets do not affect the productive yields in rabbits in the fattening phase obtained with the commercial balanced feed