Evaluación de los Efectos Productivos al Implementar un Coccidiostato Natural Zingiber Officinale (Jengibre) en la Producción de Pollos Broiler.

Abstract

In the Program Poultry Research of the Animal Science Faculty at ESPOCH, located in Riobamba city, on the 1,5 Km Panamericana Sur way, was studied the use of three levels of Zingiber officinale (ginger) 300 (T1), 350 (T2) and 400 (T3) mg/kg of concentrate food, comparing with a control treatment (T0) under a design completely at random (DCR), the experimental results were subjected to the significance tests, analysis of variance (ADEVA) for average differences, Duncan test for the average separation at significance level P ≤ 0,05 and P ≤ 0,01. In this way was determined that the initial phase (1-21 days) chickens undergo the T3,obtained a live weight of 629,27 g; and a weight gain of 587,20 g; alimentary conversion of 1,31 and a mortality rate of 2,00%; in the same way in the fattening phase (43-56 days) reached a live weight of 3072,17 g; alimentary conversion of 2,29 and a mortality rate of 3,00% and the total phase (1-56 days) recorded a final live weight of 3030,10 g; alimentary conversion of 1,83; a mortality rate of 7,00%; weight without of the carcass of 2336,90 g; and a weight gain cost/kg of 1,08 USD. Also, using T3 the intestinal lesions percentage was null, a parasite load of 0,60 oocysts per gram of feces, with T1 achieved a lower production cost of 467,88 USD and T3 the best cost - benefit of 1,23 USD. It concluded that the use of different levels of ginger, influenced positively on the productive process of broiler chickens, in the initial and fattening phases obtaining adequate economic performance.