Authors:
V. N. Kulikov,
E. G. Kvartnikova,
E. V. Krovina
Scientific Research Institute of Fur-Bearing Animal Breeding and Rabbit Breeding namedafter V. A. Afanas’ev, Rodniki, Russia
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Abstract. In the domestic fur farming there is an urgent need to introduce an alternative type of feeding for youngminks. The purpose of the work is to study possible of feeding commercial young minks with complete feed,consisting of animal and plant components. Methods. In a scientific and economic experiment on young sapphireminks intended for slaughter, 2 groups were formed according to the principle of analogues, 32 heads each (16 malesand 16 females): I – control, II – experimental. The animals of the control group received from 2015 August 5 toSeptember 15 a typical general economic ration in the form of a wet mash, an experimental one – a loose, completefeed (made according to a recipe developed by us, taking into account the current norms), mixed with water in aratio of 1:2. All experimental studies were carried out using classical zootechnical, pathomorphological, histological,veterinary-sanitary and statistical methods. Results and scope. The dynamics of the live weight of the experimentalminks showed that by the beginning of the main period, the males and females of the experimental group laggedbehind the control animals, after switching to the main diet for slaughter, the males lag remained and the females caught up with the control animals. But the control and experimental animals did not differ in the length of the carcass.caught up with the control animals. But the control and experimental animals did not differ in the length of the carcass.The safety of the livestock was higher in the experimental group: males – 100 %, females – 93.75 %; in control –93.75 % and 87.5 %, respectively. According to the main productive indicator – the quality test – the skins of thecontrol and experimental animals did not have significant differences. Thus, the development of an alternative typeof feeding is quite possible, but it requires improvement in the direction of increasing the coefficient of digestibilityof nutrients and adaptation of males to an uncharacteristic type of feeding. Scientific novelty. The prospects and theneed to introduce an alternative type of feeding the commercial young stock of minks with full-feed compound feedsinto the domestic fur farming are outlined.
Keywords: slaughter young minks, recipe for experimental complete feed, feed mixture, diet, nutritional value,sanitary and chemical quality of feed, live weight, quality test.
For citation: Kulikov V. N., Kvartnikova E. G., Krovina E. V. Osobennosti kormleniya uboynogo molodnyaka norokpolnoratsionnym kombikormom [Features of feeding the slaughter young stock of minks with complete feed] //Agrarian Bulletin of the Urals. 2021. No. 08 (211). Pp. 42−50. DOI: 10.32417/1997-4868-2021-211-08-42-50. (InRussian.)
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