Forage waste quantifying at Chinchilla lanigera kept on wire netting floor.

Abstract

Knowing that, the Chinchilla, because of its lively temperament it’s a forage wasteful species (REBREANU, 2002), in this order we consider opportune to quantify the forage waste because such informations couldn’t be found in the literature. Between the two breeding system adopted by the breeding farms, on wire netting floor and bedding cage, our studies were focused on wire netting floor breeding system, because the slip or dropt forages can not be recovered by the animals. In this way, we pursue the roughage waste (grass-clover hay) and the complete mixed pelleted forage, collecting the rests bellow the cages and separated them in parts. After drawing and processing data’s we obtained a 29.57 % roughage waste at the adult animals and 33.28 % at the young stock. HOLDAS (1981) describe a 40 % waist from the administrated green fodder. Mentioning about the complete mixed pelleted forage waste, we deduce a 4.89 % loss at the adult animals and 10.45 % at the young stock. As we expected, the highest percentage of loss of roughage and complete mixed pelleted forage has been registered at the young stock because of the limited spacing place and of its playful temperament. These losses of forage doesn’t have major effect on production cost, the quantity of mixed pelleted forage (which is the expensive component of the ratio) waste is low, till 10.45 %, and in the case of roughage, a higher waste quantity dos not discouraging because of the low cost of it.