Práctica empresarial y acompañamiento técnico en la unidad de investigación, enseñanza y extensión (UEPE) de la Granja Experimental Avícola de la Universidad Federal de Viçosa (UFV).

Abstract

The business internship was carried out at the Federal University of Viçosa located in the municipality of Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil; in the Facilities of the Unidade de Ensino Pesquisa e Extensão (UEPE) in Produção e Nutrição de Aves in the broiler chicken sector. The poultry sector of the UFV has four small sheds for raising broiler chickens with the capacity for biweekly withdrawal of 400 birds and a laying shed with 300 birds. These two sectors are divided by the main road with the sector being on one side. of laying birds and in front the broiler chicken sector. It also has a concentrate factory, offices, raw materials storage, sanitary facilities and research equipment. The main facilities for raising animals are divided into sheds and each shed has a different infrastructure and installation depending on the objective of the research and the number of animals. Different nutritional experiments are developed led by postgraduate and doctoral students, with the accompaniment of teachers from the university's Animal Science program. Different functions were developed, such as support in daily tasks, animal management, sanitary management, mixing rations for the different treatments to be experimented, taking physiological samples, support in laboratories for sample analysis and among other activities. The investigations that were accompanied were based on a completely randomized experimental design in a 3 x 4 factorial arrangement (3 levels of metabolizable energy ME) (4 lysine: energy ratios) with 8 repetitions each; and the second to carry out a comparison of performance and growth curves with proposed demands according to Hannas et al. (unpublished data) and Manual of Cobb 2022.