Efecto de la inclusión de harina de larva de mosca soldado-negra (Hermetia Illucens) en la nutrición de codorniz japónica (Coturnix Coturnix Japónica) en la etapa de cría en la finca Tonchalá, corregimiento Carmen de Tonchalá - Norte de Santander, Colombia.

Abstract

In the present research work, the larval meal of black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) was evaluated as a partial ingredient in the diet of quail in the breeding stage (day 1 to 15), 180 cotupolls of one day of births destined for 3 treatments of inclusion of 10%, 7.5%, 5% and the control, each with three repetitions, each repetition employed 15 birds, for this it was necessary to obtain breeding flies from the farm of the researcher Andrés Felipe Basto del Latin American Center for Smaller Species CLEM of SENA (Tuluá-Valle) achieving its semi-artificial reproduction, thus allowing to obtain a larval production which was collected and subjected to a rocess of dehydration in the oven for a time of 72 hours at 60 ° C, getting dried larvae that were crushed by the blender to become flour.

The diets were formulated according to the requirements of the bird in the breeding stage and in the calculated quantities the larval flour and commercial concentrate flour were homogenized, then the mixtures were passed through the industrial mill achieving pelletization of the diets and carrying them Baked for dehydration, being dehydrated, they were ground to obtain the necessary particle to feed the cotupollos. The cotupollos were arranged in a breeding cradle with the necessary conditions receiving the feeding with the corresponding diet, the birds were weighed on arrival (initial weight), on day 5, day 8, day 11 and day 15 (final weight), the data were recorded in the Excel 2013 program and the variables of study final weight, weight gain and feed conversion for final weighing (day 15) were statistically analyzed with the ANOVA and Tukey test showing for the final weight variable that there are differences significant differences between the control group and the treatments, with results not favorable for inclusions and in the variables weight gain and nutritional conversion no significant X differences were found. However, better results of 10% inclusion in food conversion and weight gain on the control group were observed, from the weighing on day 11 to the final weighing.