La cáscara de cacao en dietas para engorde y acabado de cerdos

This work corresponds to an essay with differents levels of cocoa meal in swine, destinated to growth and fattening. The experiment was realized with 5 lots of 8 animals each, 4 castrated males and 4- females, taking a group as witness whioch did not contain cocoa meal in its mix. The diets 2 -3- 4-5 contained 5 - 1 0 - 1 5 and 20 percent of cocoa meal respectively. In diet 5 (20 per cent of cocoa) one pig was eliminated because he presented disease' symptons and had void overweight.