El objetivo del estudio fue evaluar el efecto de la suplementación de probiótico, prebiótico y simbiótico en la dieta del cuy de engorde sobre los parámetros productivos (ganancia peso: GP, consumo total de materia seca: CTMS, índice de conversón alimenticia: ICA), y la morfología intestinal (longitud de vellosidad: LV, ancho de vellosidad: AV, profundidad de la cripta de Lieberkühn: PCL y la relación: LV/PCL). El estudio se realizó en tres ensayos. Se eligieron aleatoriamente 50 crías machos destetados (14 días) por ensayo. Los ensayos se evaluaron mediante un diseño completamente aleatorio. Los ensayos I y II, evaluaron el efecto de los niveles crecientes del probiótico (PROB) y prebiótico (PREB) respectivamente. El ensayo III, contempló un arreglo factorial (PROB y PREB) y dos niveles (con y sin) más un tratamiento adicional como control positivo (antibiótico promot...

This study aimed to determine the service rate (TS) in intensive dairy farms in Lima, Peru and to identify the factors affecting it. For this purpose, 144 experimental units (farm-month units) were used. Each unit consisted of 60 randomly selected cows who had more than 60 days in lactation during the study month and their conception date should be after the start date of the study month. Records of four dairy farms in the provinces of Huaura, Huaral, Lima and Cañete in the period of August 2010 to July 2013 were assessed. The effect of days in milk (DEL), production level (NPX), parity (NP), the percentage of inseminated cows by using prostaglandins (%PG), percentage of inseminated cows under fixed-time artificial insemination (%TAI) and maximum temperature-humidity index (THI Max) on service rate were evaluated. Moreover, farm, year, season and milking frequency were evaluated. TS was...

El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo determinar la tasa de servicio (TS) de establos de lechería intensiva de Lima, Perú, e identificar los factores que la afectan. Se trabajó con 144 unidades experimentales, denominadas establo-mes. Cada una estuvo conformada por 60 vacas seleccionadas al azar, las cuales debían tener más de 60 días en lactación durante el mes de estudio y su fecha de concepción debía ser después de la fecha de inicio del mes de estudio. Se trabajó con los registros de cuatro establos de las provincias de Huaura, Lima y Cañete en el periodo entre agosto de 2010 y julio de 2013. Se evaluó la posible influencia sobre la TS de los días en lactación (DEL), nivel productivo (NPx), número de partos (NP), porcentaje de vacas con uso de prostaglandinas (%PG), porcentaje de vacas bajo un programa de inseminación artificial a tiempo fijo (%IATF) y del índice t...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a vegetable diet compared to a diet containing fishmeal at the commercial level (6%) on body growth, proximal composition of fillets and hematological parameters of juvenil gamitana (Colossoma macropomum). The experiment followed a completely randomized design with two treatments, an exclusively vegetable diet and a diet with low fishmeal content (6%), and three 200 m3 dug earthen ponds as experimental units per treatment. A total of 1200 fish (172.9 g; 19.4 cm) distributed in the six ponds (1 fish/m3) were used. Feeding was done twice a day (08:00 and 16:00) at a daily feeding rate of 2% for 60 days. The water quality parameters were monitored daily and showed constant values and within the comfort range of the species. The exclusively vegetable diet had a similar effect as the fishmeal diet on body growth [final weight 258.9 g, weigh...

The effect of including fish protein hydrolyzate in the diet on body growth and proximate composition of the muscle of juvenile spotted tiger shovelnose catfish (Pseudoplatystoma punctifer) was evaluated. A completely randomized experimental design with a 2x4 factorial arrangement (2 diets, 4 sampling times [days 15, 30, 45 and 60]) was used, resulting in 8 treatments with 3 replications each. The formulated diets were isocaloric (42.15% CP) and isoproteic (4 415.69 kcal EB kg-1): a control (DT; without supplementation) and another with the inclusion of 1.20% fish protein hydrolyzate (DHP) in substitution of fishmeal. A total of 114 juveniles (642.65 g; 47.93 cm) were distributed in excavated ponds of 200 m2 (19 fish/pond) for 60 days. Every 15 days, eight fish per experimental unit were captured to evaluate body growth (final weight FW, final length FL, weight gain WG, length gain LG, s...