Abstract
Samples of chicken manure and water from fish ponds receiving the latter were found to contain a relatively high bioload of micro‐organisms. Aerobic heterotropic counts in chicken manure were in the range of 1.75 x 10∗ colony forming units CFU per ml. with coliforms constituting about 7.4% of this value. Salmonella and Shigella similarly occurred in relatively high proportions. Iron oxidizing bacteria were also detected. Homogenized tissue of fish growing in the ponds was found to contain on the average 0.25% of total bioloads as pathogenic Vibrio sp. The implication of the use of chicken manure in fish ponds is discussed.
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