EVALUACIÓN DE PULPA DE TOTUMO (Crescentia cujete L) ENSILADA EN DOS ESTADOS DE MADURACIÓN COMO ALTERNATIVA EN ALIMENTACIÓN BOVINA
2012
Edwin J Flórez
Cattle produced in the Colombian Caribbean during the dry season have lost weight because of the scarcity of food rich in protein and carbohydrates. To help in the solution, the pulp silage of totumo was evaluated as an alternatively in animal feeding. Drying techniques to reduce the concentration of hydrocyanic acid of the pulp were used. The study was conducted at the Center for Research and Development of Engineering Popular University of Cesar, Valledupar, Colombia. The pulp was evaluated in two stages of maturity (green and ripe), silaged during four and eight days, crushed, sun-dried and baked. A completely randomized design with six treatments and three replications was used. Manual methods were used for pulping. For physicochemical analysis of the pulp, titulation, refractometry, potentiometry, flame photometry, drying flask and enzymatic hydrolysis techniques were used. Pulp yields in mature and green totumo were 57.87% and 59.63% respectively. Totumo pulp ripe silage during four days, crushed and dried in the sun, threw a higher percentage of carbohydrates with 42.71, and the green calabash, crushed, without silage and without drying, was lower with 5.44. From a nutritional standpoint and HCN hydrocyanic acid content, the pulp of ripe calabash, with eight days of silage, crushed and dried in the oven is considered to be the most suitable for cattle feed.
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