Comportamiento productivo de cuatro fenotipos en pollos camperos con la suplementación de germinados de maíz (Zea mays), soya (Glycine max), alfalfa (Medicago sativa) y maní forrajero (Arachis pintoi), en El Carmen - Manabí – Ecuador.

Abstract

The field of poultry farming is a very broad topic that encompasses a number of subtopics, with which the productivity and economy that the country and the world go through with respect to this topic are studied day by day, studies have shown that chickens Camperos have been studied in different ways to improve their performance both in meat and in its flavor when it is ready for consumption. That is why my research is based on the study of free-range chickens supplemented with different types of sprouts. The main objective of this research project was to evaluate the productive behavior in free-range chickens with the supplementation of corn sprouts (Zea mays), soybeans (Glycine max), alfalfa (Medicago sativa) and forage peanuts (Arachis pintoi) in El Carmen. – Ecuador. The results obtained showed that in the weekly weight of the free-range broiler lines, no significant differences were found (p > 0.05) in the first three weeks of evaluation, in which the heavy chickens maintained a similar value between the 4 considered phenotypes, from the fourth week to the 8th week statistical differences were found (p < 0.05) between the averages of the chickens. In the weight gain parameter, free-range chickens per week did not show significant differences (p >0.05) between the henotypes in the first 3 weeks and the last two weeks of evaluation in the weight increase of the animals in the fourth, fifth and In the sixth week, the different lines of free-range chickens presented statistical differences (p < 0.05) between the applied treatments. Feed conversion showed a similar result to those obtained in weekly weight and weight gain, in which the first three weeks and the last two data collections did not present significant differences (p > 0.05) while in weeks 4 , 5 and 6 showed statistical differences (p <0.05) between the four lines of free-range chickens fed with different products.