Evaluación de diferentes dietas alimenticias en la formación de núcleos de abejas

Abstract

In the community of Nitiluisa, Calpi parish, Chimborazo province, was evaluated the use of different dietary diets in the formation of crossbred Italian bees nucleus. For the development of the present research were used three treatments: T1 (25% Maize flour + 10% honey + 45% soybean + 20% pollen), T2 (50% maize flour + 10% honey + 30% soybean + 10 % Pollen), T3 (75% maize flour + 10% honey + 15% soybeans), against a control treatment T0 (syrup + pollen). It was applied a DCA, with three repetitions and TUE: a hive for this research process. In evaluating the productive parameters, such as: initial weight, final weight, gain weight, feed intake, number of cells with open hatchlings, number of frameworks with open hatchlings, number of cells with closed hatchlings, number of frameworks with closed hatchlings, birth of queens, fertilization of the queen; no significant differences were found and only statistically significant differences were observed in the food consumption variable, obtaining greater consumption in the treatment T0 (19,456.67 ml); indicating that a PC (profit / cost) was obtained with the treatments T1, T2, T3, of 1.10 dollars which means that for every dollar spent there is a profit of 0.10 dollars, whereas the lowest PC, was obtained with the treatment T0 with 1.06 dollars which means that for every dollar spent was obtained a profit of 0.06 dollars; Therefore, it is recommended to implement the use of the mixture based on (50%) maize flour and 45% of soybean flour, as a protein supplement for the feeding of bees, since it had a good acceptance by these individuals, in addition it was possible to establish the new nuclei without any inconvenient.