Bloques nutricionales en la alimentación de conejos.

Abstract

This research describes the nutritional blocks in the diet of growing and fattening rabbits presented by various scientific studies which allowed to meet the objective to analyze the bromatological composition and the productive behavior of the rabbits fed with nutritional blocks. With this purpose, degree studies, scientific articles, Web sites (Internet), digital repositories (DSpace ESPOCH, UDCA, USAC, UTN), and indexed journals (Scielo, Latindex, Dialnet) were analyzed. It was noticed that the nutritional blocks based on Ramié and Morera showed that they presented a bromatological composition similar to the nutritional requirements of the rabbit in terms of protein of 18.48; 16.5%, Fiber 11.81; 14.1% and Lipids of 6.55; 1.7% respectively. However, in reference to the productive parameters, the nutritional block that stands out is the one that uses 5% cane bagasse flour, which presented a greater weight gain 2,878 kg, feed conversion 1.6, weight to the carcass of 3,237 kg and carcass yield of 95.84%. It was concluded that the use of cane bagasse flour, in adequate quantities, to make nutritional blocks improves the body condition of rabbits and favors them in the growth and fattening stage. For these reasons, it is important to promote future studies in another physiological phase of the animal.