Evaluación de una mezcla forrajera para la alimentacion de cuyes en crecimiento-engorde, en el cantón Quijos de la provincia del Napo.

Abstract

The objective of the present investigation was to evaluate the productive behavior of guinea pigs in the stage of growth fattening when in their daily diet a forage mixture is used. It was carried out in Bellavista Farm, Santa Lucia de Bermejo, Cosanga Parish located in Quijos in Napo Province. The treatments were: T1( honey grass 25% blue grass 25% concentrated 50%), T2( honey grass 25% ryegrass 25% concentrated 50%), T3( blue grass 25% 25% ryegrass 25% concentrated 50%) versus control TO( local weeds); we used 64 guinea pigs, 32 female and 32 male improved line aged 15 days and an average weight of 339.17 , using a completely random design in a combinatorial arrangement of two factors: where factor A corresponds to the forage mixture and factor B to the sex of the animals. The results were tabulated in a statistical program for descriptive statistical analysis, and the separation of means was performed using the Tukey test with a significance level of 0.05. The results indicate that the use of the forage mixture made up of honey grass concentrated blue grass presents higher responses, of forage consumption (2371.13 g/Ms) and total food consumption (3669.81g/Ms), exceeding the results of the control treatment. In the economic evaluation it was established that the T2 obtains the highest cost benefit, with a nominal value of $1.13. It is concluded that when evaluating the productive parameters there are no significant differences, in the meantime in the variables: Weight gain, forage consumption; total food consumption and food conversion, they present highly significant differences. It is recommended to use fodder mixture of blue grass plus honeygrass, as part of a diet, in the stages of gestation and lactation.