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Producción de leche en bovinos de la granja Santa Ines alimentados con cascara de banano maduro

Abstract:

Low-cost alternative sources for animal feed are been constantly searched by livestock producers. In particular, cattle farming in Ecuador faces some major challenges in terms of animal feeding and supplementation. In parallel, the food processing industry need new alternatives for disposing the organic waste. This situation generates a logistical problem for industrialists. The present experimental research was aimed to evaluate the inclusion of mature banana peel as an alternative to replace green bananas in the feeding of dairy cattle. Experiments were carried out in the facilities of the Santa Inés Farm of the Technical University of Machala province of El Oro. The research consisted in keeping a record From the milk production parameter,in the treatment group and in the control group for 61 days. The code, age, date of the last calving, the days of average milk production and days of lactation of the whole cattle herd was recorded (36 cattle). The animals were then distributed into two homogeneous groups, using a statistical analysis of mean of communication and standard deviation, finding that there is no significant difference between the two groups, identifying them as group 1 (witness or control) and group 2 (treatment with banana peels), which was acquired by the intervention of the Ecuadorian Company CONFOCO S.A. The variables to be considered were: days of lactation and daily milk production. The balanced formula that was used in Feeding is based on grazing for a time of 5 hours and ration in pens, the balanced formula used in animal rations is made up of Palmiste 47 kg, Chicken manure 9 kg, Banana caramel 34.40 kg, Raquis 331.80 Kg, Calcium carbonate 10.80 kg and common salt 2.70 kg. For the whole herd. The balanced diet of group 1 consisted of the staple food plus green banana 222.4 kg for the group and group 2 the staple diet with the inclusion of ripe banana husk 204,17 for the group. Mix that was distributed once a day at 4 pm in each compartment of each group. Within the results we observed that the control group and the treatment group had a very similar milk production from the beginning to the final day of the experiment, generating an average of the production where we obtained 7.78 kg in the control group and 7, 70 in the treatment group, this indicates that there were no statistically significant values since the p-value is 0.359 value May to 0.05, however some values were presented atypical because we had animals that exceeded the days of lactation and As a result, their production decreased. Moreover, it is observed the trend lines, you may notice that although the son, animals with a banana peel, a lower slope of the production curve drop than animals with banana green, Which is an interesting analysis data because it indicates that the use of banana peel is a favorable alternative in the feeding of cattle of milk production. The mature banana peel is an organic rejection produced by the banana processing industries, which generates a great impact of environmental contamination. In this research, it was shown that the proposed treatment did not produce statistically significant changes in milk production, which concludes that the inclusion of mature banana peel in the animal's diet does not represent a negative effect on milk production, And on the other hand it represents a significant saving for the livestock farmer in the dairy farms in the areas where this raw material is available.