Productive behavior in rabbits during the fattening growth period-fed with mango as partial substitution of the commercial balanced food.
Palma O. R., Hurtado E. A.
Author Affiliation: Ingeniero Producción Animal, Escuela de Zootecnia, Universidad de Oriente, Núcleo Monagas, Monagas, Venezuela.
IDESIA 28 : 33-37
Abstract : With the purpose of evaluating the productive behavior of rabbits during the period of fattening growth, I made an experiment that consisted on the partial substitution of the commercial balanced food by the Mango fruit (Mangifera indica) in a commercial farm of the Monagas state, Venezuela. The experiment lasted 63 days, there were used 32 racially mixed rabbits from New Zealand and California being 30 days of age, lodged in cages. Four treatments were used, with a design completely randomized and four repetitions settled down. T1: 120 commercial balanced food (BFC), T2: 80 BFC g+40 Mango g, T3: 60 BFC g+60 Mango g and T4:40 BFC g+80 Mango g. The dependent variables were: daily gain of weight average (DGW), final gain of weight (FGW), nutritional conversion with commercial balanced food (NCABFC), final weight at 93 days of age (FP), total consumption (TC). There was made an analysis of variance by the method of square minimums. The results showed significant differences for the variables under study. Being the greater averages in DGW for T1: 26,69±1.34 g; FP for T1: 2083,75±7.85 kg; TC was for T1: 7434,37±11,23. The best NCABFC were obtained in the treatments that incorporated the Mango fruit. In general the results obtained allow to infer the use of the fruit as alternative resource in the feeding of fattening rabbits.