Efecto de la harina de cáscara de cacao (theobroma cacao) en la producción de pollo de engorde.

Abstract

The present research was carried out at Finca el Manantial, located in the Palo de Agua village of the Fortul municipality, and aimed to evaluate the effect of cocoa shell flour on the production of broiler chicken. The cocoa clone FSA 13 (Fedecacao Saravena 13) was used to obtain the flour from their shells and chickens from the Ross 308 line that were fed diets based on said flour. A totally randomized design was used with five cocoa shell inclusion treatments: T1 2.5%, T2 5%, T3 7.5%, T4 10% and a control. The productive parameters of consumption, weight gain, feed conversion, feed efficiency, carcass yield and feed costs were evaluated weekly. In the present study, no statistically significant difference (P≥0.05) was applied for the study variables between the control group and the treatments that contain cocoa shell flour in their composition. For RC and Pigmentation, a negative linear order effect is applied, that is, the parameter is affected as the substitution of commercial balanced feed for cocoa flour increases. In relation to the economic analysis, in feeding costs a substantial decrease per kilogram of meat produced for TC10% is ob served compared to the control group and other treatments, while for net income per live chicken INCP and net income per chicken in channel INCC, TC2.5% presented the highest values.