Sustitución parcial del alimento balanceado comercial por Gliricidia sepium y su efecto sobre los parámetros productivos en pollos de engorde.

Abstract

The present investigation was developed in the municipality of Puerto Carreño in the department of Vichada and aimed to evaluate how the inclusion of Gliricidia sepium in chicken feed influenced the production parameters and costs of this system. Chickens of the Cobb breed were managed for the development of this research, where for this test there were 4 groups made up of 10 chickens each, thus having a total of 40 animals, to which they were supplied in their daily diet concentrated balanced food plus the inclusion of various percentages of Gliricidia sepium, inclusion percentage of 15%, 10% and 5% of Gliricidia sepium and a control group to which only concentrated food was included in their diet, this food inclusion was made from the day 3 arrival of the chickens. Regarding data collection, this was done weekly for which a manual record of these data was kept, variables of productive parameters were taken into account, such as weight, feed conversion, feed efficiency, carcass yield, weight gain, percentage of carcass fat and costs; The ANOVA statistical test was used for data analysis, which showed that in the gain variable where the results were: for the control 2098.9 gr, T5% 2051.4 gr, T10% 2066.8; T15% 2096 gr shows that the control group obtained the best results for weight gain, as well as for the variables of feed efficiency and efficacy; In terms of food consumption, the group of 15% inclusion of rat rat presented less consumption, resulting in the best option in terms of reducing feeding costs.