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2023-01-18
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Hydroponic green forage as a food alternative in broilers (gallus gallus domesticus)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/25394088.6244
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Diana Marisol Castañeda Villarreal Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-UNIMINUTO
Andrés Felipe Orjuela Hueso Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-UNIMINUTO
Angie Paola Marmolejo Villa Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios-UNIMINUTO

Broilers are part of the Colombian diet in a significant way, for which most of their production is done using concentrates, representing a high cost in their production and a dependence on these. Finally, the use of hydroponic green corn fodder, and an organic diet based on cassava, produced in the area of ​​the experiment, is proposed to identify if it is efficient in terms of weight gain, against a commercial feed. Carrying out the breeding of 16 chickens to which 8 are supplied with the diet of hydroponic green fodder with cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), and the other 8 a commercial diet, analyzing the weekly weight gain of each group and in the same conditions. weather and location. Resulting in a small study group for the analysis of the food supplied.