Ingesta de materia seca en terneros al destete con gramínea de corte e Thitonia diversifolia.

Abstract

This investigation was carried out on the property "Rancho Santa Leonor" owned by Lcdo. Walberto Vélez Franco, located at kilometer 4, Sumita-Pita site, on the right bank, in the canton of El Carmen, province of Manabí, the area is classified as a humid tropical type bioclimate, irregular topography, and its productive vocation is around the barraganete banana for export purposes and livestock, especially beef, the study of the intake of dry matter in calves at weaning with the pasture cuba 22 (Pennisetum sp) and thitonia diversifolia as a supplement, a research methodology was proposed using a Completely Randomized Design (DCA) with three treatments and ten replications. Once the research was concluded, the data were evaluated using Tukey's mean comparison test, in the ININFOSTAT statistical program. It consisted of three phases of 10 days each, for which three cattle were used, three treatments with ten repetitions were evaluated. The treatment was the dehydration time of the grass used with the inclusion of forage trees; fresh grass; 24-hour dehydrated grass; and dehydrated grass 48 hours. In all of them, 500 grams of buttercup were included, the three animals selected for the trial were entered into their respective pens, where they had devices for water, mineralized salt and chopped grass. The initial weight was 310 kg for the first, 315 kg for the second and 305 kg for the third. Where the dry matter consumption variable yielded a result of 6.04 kg, which represents a percentage of CMS of 1.93% of the cuba 22 grass (Pennisetum purpureum) in relation to the body weight of the calves at weaning, evaluated during a period of 30 days. It was observed that no statistically significant differences were found between the treatments (p<0.05).