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PROLOGUE TO THE SECOND EDITION With this second edition of the updated and corrected Guinea Pig Management Manual, we hope to make a valuable tool in guinea pig production techniques. All of the incorporated techniques in the new version show the utility that this indispensable manual already had for users, how to be guinea pig farmers in general, students, technicians and professionals from the animal production area. The Genetic Improvement Project and Guinea Pig Management in Bolivia MEJOCUY, together with the Special Program of Food Production in support with the Nutritional Security PESA, upon implementing the Family Guinea Pig Breeding Program, tried to develop the capacities and initiatives of the group goal with micromanagement, which is fundamental to take a step in sustained guinea pig production. In poverty stricken countries like ours, it is hard work to implement programs of rural development, even more difficult because these have production level that does not depend financially or technically on the Program or the Project. In this sense, a new production alternative arises from Family Guinea Pig Breeding. With a tendency towards sustainable production, having inserted the production costs in this Manual, these components let the guinea pig farmers validate the retaining level of the same, an aspect that by itself is interesting in light of guinea pig production These elements permit them to plan their scale and level of production according to their actual possibilities and necessities. Guinea pig producers, apart from counting on additional marginal incomes, the direct benefit that they obtain with this type of breeding is the contribution to the diet improvement and diversification with protein from the original animal in particular and in general to the neighboring farmers. In synthesis, it is important high-quality work, which the guinea pig producers and technicians bound to this type of production will need to look into. It would not be fair at this moment to not 5
ecognize and congratulate, on behalf of many others I’m sure, the coauthors Elizabeth Rico and Claudia Rivas for their valuable help that will be for all of us use of the present Manual. 6 Enrique Fernández Sangüeza
Page 1 and 2: GUINEA PIG MANAGEMENT MANUAL Elabor
Page 3 and 4: PRESENTATION PROLOGUE TO THE FIRST
Page 5: of nutrition and feeding; the sixth
Page 9 and 10: Guinea pig consumption is very trad
Page 11 and 12: Figure 3: Reproducing guinea pig fr
Page 13 and 14: Another unpleasant aspect is that t
Page 15 and 16: The animals live in protected areas
Page 17 and 18: currents. In warmer and temperate c
Page 19 and 20: ADVANTAGES: • Facilitates managem
Page 21 and 22: IV. BREEDING MANAGEMENT Certain pro
Page 23 and 24: One should pick up a pregnant guine
Page 25 and 26: The guinea pigs are not as dependen
Page 27 and 28: The largest males of the group shou
Page 29 and 30: Record of breeding stage: Weaning d
Page 31 and 32: Vitamins activate bodily functions
Page 33 and 34: FIGURE 20: Alfalfa The guinea pig c
Page 35 and 36: Therefore, forage assures an adequa
Page 37 and 38: CONTAMINATED FORAGE Contamination o
Page 39 and 40: Treatment If the disease appears in
Page 41 and 42: • Do not let in dogs, cats, or ra
Page 43 and 44: Prevention The corrals should be cl
Page 45 and 46: is produced by the fungi makes the
Page 47 and 48: • Disinfection of corrals, clean
Page 49 and 50: Reproduction system: Continual pair
Page 51 and 52: PROJECTION OF ANNUAL INCOME (Bs.) D
Page 53 and 54: It is recommended to strengthen the
Page 55 and 56: • The meat is put into a plastic
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Ingredients: Figure 32: Plate of Gu
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• Oil • Pepper, salt and garlic
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improve the quality of life of peop
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