Efecto de la Glutamina en la Alimentación de Lechones Comerciales PIC desde los Ocho hasta los Setenta Días de Edad

Abstract

In the Fernandez Corporation, Swine Production Area, located on the Km 126 on the way Guayaquil-Salinas, Peninsula the Santa Elena Province, the effect of the glutamine in the feeding of commercial piglets PIC ( Swine Indusíry Company) from eight to seventy days old was determined. The evaluated treatments were, 0%, 0.25% and 0.5% glutamine given in the commercial feed of piglets distributed under a completely at random design (DCA), with thirty replications per treatment and ninety experimental units. From the results, the best treatment was 0.5% glutamine, reaching a weight of 27.170 kg at seventy days old, a better feed conversion, 1.366 as compared to the other treatments .Likewise, a higher feed consumption and a lower morbility presence were obtained. Highly statistical differences were shown at 1 and 5%. It is recommended to use, in the piglet feeding a quantity of5kg glutamine per ton feed, that is at 0.5%. The glutamine effect is based upon the strengthening of the intestine hairs, in the diminishing of their crypts, thus attaining a better uptake of the feed ingested by the animal. On the other hand, the glutamine is an aminoacid which helps the strengthening of the immunological system, providing the swine production an alternative to increase and improve its efficiency in this exploitation type.