Utilización de diferentes niveles de semilla de Plukenetia volubilis (Sacha inchi), en conejos neozelandeses desde el destete hasta el inicio de la vida reproductiva

Abstract

At minor species rabbit program of Animal Science Faculty of ESPOCH, it was evaluated the use of Sacha Inchi flour at 0, 2, 4, and 6% for New Zealand rabbit feeding from the waning stage to the beginning of the reproductive cycle, this process was made up of three treatments related to a control treatment. A combined completely randomized design was applied. Factor “A” regarding to Sacha Inchi Flour level and factor “B” regarding to the animal sex with five repetitions. The best results are the ones reported with the use of treatment 3 (sacha inchi flour at 6%); this increases the productive benefits (less cost and higher profitability), the best final weights (3.13 Kg), total weight gaining (2.35 Kg), less total food consumption (8.80 Kg/DM), efficient food conversion (3.78), carcass weight (1.62 Kg), carcass yield (51.73%), and the decrease of cost per kilogram of weight gain (1.18 dollars). According to the rabbit sex evaluation there is an increase in the parameters for male rabbits, they are; final weight (3.05 Kg), weight gaining (2.29 Kg), food conversion (3.87), and less cost per kilogram of weight gain (1.22 dollars). The highest cost-benefit index was 1.16 dollars, it is to say a profitability of 16%. Thus it is recommended to include sacha inchi flour at 6%, since it improves the productive and economic parameters in New Zealand rabbits.