Title
Productive and economic response of guinea pigs to the use of four types of forage feeders
Other title
Respuesta productiva y económica al uso de cuatro tipos de comederos para forraje en la crianza de cuyes
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Raúl Sánchez V.
José Bustamante L.
Estación Experimental del Centro de Investigaciones
Estación Experimental del Centro de Investigaciones
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
The study evaluated the effect of various types of forage feeders on the efficiency of forage usage and on the productive and economic response of guinea pig (Cavia porcellus) breeding. A total of 250 weaned male of 15 days of age at the Mantaro valley, Junín, Peru were used in a completely randomized design with five treatments of forage supply and five repetitions per treatment. Each repetition corresponded to a cage with ten guinea pigs. Four forage feeders were evaluated: cylindrical mesh on the floor (CMP), hanging U shaped mesh (MCU), iron grilled with foot on the floor (PFP) and hopper mesh in V shaped (TMV), plus the traditional method with the forage directly on the floor (DSP). The use of feeders improved forage consumption efficiency, total food consumption and benefit cost ratio (p<0.05). MCU was the most promising feeder in terms of forage consumption efficiency, body weight gain, total feed consumption, unit production cost and benefit cost ratio (p<0.05). It is concluded that the use of feeders improves productive and economic parameters, and the best feeder was the hanging U shaped mesh (MCU).
Start page
441
End page
450
Volume
24
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia animal, Ciencia de productos lácteos
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84891749623
Source
Revista de Investigaciones Veterinarias del Peru
ISSN of the container
16823419
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