Evaluación del ensilado de naranja en la alimentación de toretes de levante, en la provincia de Cotopaxi.

Abstract

This investigation was carried out at the Hacienda “San Fernando”, of the Beltrán Ramírez family, which is located at km 3.5 of the Moraspungo - El Corazón road, Moraspungo parish, Cotopaxi province; We worked with a total population of 30 bulls, which were distributed evenly according to age and live weight, in three study groups. The control group had traditional feeding while at T2 6 kg / animal / day of orange silage was supplied and at T3 an orange silage supplementation of 9 kg / animal / day, for a period of 35 days (5 weeks). The purpose of this work was to determine the weight gain with different amounts of orange silage, in addition to the analysis of the costs of the orange silage in order to evaluate the application of this feeding strategy in times of shortage of fodder. At the end of the study it was obtained that, the T2 with 6 kilos of silage exceeded the bioproductive parameters in terms of average weight, so there was a better cost benefit with respect to the control and the T3, it is a good alternative in times of shortage of pasture and also profitable within the fattening of bulls.