Engorde de cuyes mejorados (Cavia Porcellus) con bloques nutricionales a base de morera (Morus alba), botón de oro (Tithonia diversifolia) y caraca (Erythrina smithiana)en la Finca "La María" Mocache Provincia de Los Ríos, 2012.

The research was carried out at the Experimental Farm "La Maria", owned by the State Technical University Quevedo (UTEQ), located at km 7 1 /2 of the way Quevedo-Mocache; Province of Los Rios, whose geographical location of 1 6 '23 "south latitude and 79 º 29'22" W and a height of 73 meters. The investigation lasted 56 days. Four treatments were evaluated: T1 = Control balanced (block), T2 = block-based nutritional mulberry (30%), T3 = blockbased nutritional Buttercup (30%) and T4 = block-based nutritional caraca (30 %). Using 48 male guinea pigs 20 days of age with an average weight of 296 g, we applied a randomized complete design (DCA) with six replicates; the experimental unit consisted of two animals. We applied the multiple range test of Tukey (P ≤ 0.05). The variables were: nutritional block consumption, weight gain, feed conversion, carcass weight and carcass yield. The profitability of the treatments were determined using the cost-benefit ratio. Nutritional intake block was not affected (P> 0.05) by the inclusion of tropical shrub forage. However most (P <0.05) weight gain, live weight, feed conversion, carcass weight, carcass yield, and profitability, log T2 treatment (6.33 g animal-1 d-1, 655 , 83 g, 3.07, 465.50 g, 71% and 31,20%) respectively. Keywords: shrubs, fodder, food, block, fattening, guinea pigs

• Main Author: Inte Saquinga, José Eduardo (author)
• Format: bachelorThesis
• Language: spa
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Engorde de cuyes mejorados; Finca La María, Cantón Mocache
• Online Access: http://repositorio.uteq.edu.ec/handle/43000/4362