project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
2019-006-Hegaztinsekt - Insects for feeding poultry
2019-006-HEGAZTINSEKT - Incorporación de insectos en alimentación avicola
Objectives
Development of sustainable and local feed including insects as main protein source four poultry.
Objectives
Desarrollo de piensos sostenibles y locales a partir de insectos para alimentación avicola
Activities
Insect rearing,Trasnformation on Insect powder, feed formulation and production and finally, poultry rearing.
Activities
Cría de insectos y su transofmración en harinas. Incirporación de las harinas en las formaulaicones de piensos y finalmente, la alimentación de los pollos.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP015 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - País Vasco
Emplacement
- Main geographical location
- Vizcaya
- Other geographical location
- Guipúzcoa
€ 86452
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
1 Practice Abstracts
A pilot room was created for the industrial breeding of Tenebrio Molitor, where a vertical breeding system of 16 heights was opted for. In this way, a breeding capacity of 300Kg of Tenebrio/month was reached.
Two feeds were formulated with insect meal, with 10% and 15% meal respectively.
Two feeding tests with chickens were carried out; the first on an experimental farm and the second on a commercial farm.
The lack of clear regulations for the use of insects in poultry farming at the time of development of the project, forced us to reduce the scope of the test to a total of 400 chickens.
The growth of the chickens has been similar (comparison with Soy). No notable advantage has been seen in terms of growth rates, so since it is not a competitive alternative in terms of price, the consortium sees it as interesting to explore other routes of greater value, such as:
a. incorporate whole/dehydrated insects as a supplement to the diets of free-range chickens.
b. Improvement of organoleptic factors (flavor and color)
c. sustainable feed
Se creo una sala piloto para la cría industrial de Tenebrio Molitor, donde se apostó por un sistema de cría vertical de 16 alturas. De esta manera, se llegó a una capacidad de cría de 300Kg de Tenebrio/mes.
Se formularon 2 piensos con harina de insecto, con un 10% y 15% de harina respectivamente.
Se realizaron 2 pruebas de alimentación con pollos; la primera en una granja experimental y la segunda, en una granja comercial.
La falta de una normativa clara para el uso de los insectos en avicultura a día de desarrollo dle proyecto, nos obligó a reducir el alcance de la prueba a un total de 400 pollos.
El crecimiento de los pollos ha sido similar (comparación con Soja). No se ha visto ninguna ventaja destacabe en cuanto a ritmos de crecimiento, por lo que al no ser una alternativa competitiva en precio, el consorcio ve interesante explorar otras vías de mayor valor como:
a. incorporar los insectos enteros/deshidratados como complemento para las dietas de los pollos camperos.
b. Mejora de los factores organolepticos (sabor y color)
c. Piensos sostenibles
Contacts
Project coordinator
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Insekt Label Biotech
Project coordinator
Project partners
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Granja Itzondo
Project partner
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Incubadoras Costa
Project partner
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Tazebaez S.Coop
Project partner
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Miba S.Coop
Project partner
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Neiker
Project partner