Evaluación de diferentes niveles de harina de remolacha de desecho para la alimentación de cuyes en crecimiento – engorde.

Abstract

The present research aimed to evaluate different levels of waste beet flour in the feeding of guinea pigs in the growth – fattening stage. For the development of the present research, three treatments were used, to be compared with a control treatment. A completely random design (DCA) was applied, in combination of two factors; factor A corresponds to beet flour levels (7, 14 and 21 %), and factor B corresponds to the sex of the animals, with ten repetitions. The results obtained in the present research were tabulated in the Excel Office 2016 program and the analysis of variance (ADEVA) using a statistical software. The statistical techniques analyzed were: Analysis of variance (ADEVA), separation of means of treatments according to the Tukey test, at a significance level of 5.0%. When assessing the productive behavior of guinea pigs, the addition of beet flour in the balancing did not cause alterations in the normal development of the animals, because they did not present significant differences between the different levels of flour and the control treatment, so you can use any of the flour levels. It was concluded that the males were the ones with the highest yields, with a final weight of 1007.82 g, a weight gain of 721.63 g. It was recommended to use 21% beet flour with a benefit/cost of 1.06, which represents that for every dollar invested there is a return of 0.27.