Guinea Pigs

Our student Reinaldo Mendoza defended his project today, about supplementing guinea pig feed with dried manure*, and showed the chicken manure mixed with wheat bran and fed to guinea pigs with forrages helps increase productivity and profitability.

Good job, Reinaldo!


Photo: Reinaldo with one of his animals.

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* Guinea pigs, a common food in the bolivian countryside, are strange creatures: they have a cecum, like a little rumen, where they "re-digest" their droppings, using bacteria to convert inorganic nitrogen like ammonia into amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. Little known fact!