Utilización del Forraje de Campo en la Alimentación de Cuyes en las Etapas de Crecimiento-Engorde y Gestación-Lactancia en el Cantón baños de Agua

Abstract

In the Neighborhood “Juive Chico”, belonging to Baños Canton, in Tungurahua Province, it was evaluated the different levels of sweet potato forage (20, 40 and 60%) in the feeding ofguinea pigs, for being compared with a control treatment (only leaves corn), using in growing-fattening 64 guinea pigs of both genres, of 21 day-age, meanwhile in pregnancy-lactancy 32 females of the age 4 months; the experimental units was distributed under a CRD. The experimental result were treated to varianza analysis and average separation with the Tukey test (P <= 0,05). Determining in the stage of growth-fattening, with the 40% and 60% of sweet potato forage, better final weights (1,00kg) weight increments (0,64 kg), of carcasses weights (0,72kg) and lower costs/kg of weight gaining (3,14 USD).In the gestation-lactancy the results of the females as well of the obtained breeding guinea pigs were similar between treatments, but the weight of the females to the weaning and the food consumption that is reduced when increases the sweet potato forage. The young guinea pigs presented weights at the birth moment between 130, 02 and 163, 52 g, and 240, 41 to 290, 11 g. The great economic benefit in the stage of growing-fattening was reached with the 60% level of sweet potato forage and pregnancy-lactancy with the 20% of sweet potato forage (B/C of .1,18 and 1,30, respectively), that is why is recommended to employ in the feeding of guinea pigs during the growing-fattening stage, the 60% of sweet potato forage and in the pregnancy-lactancy of the 20%.