Abstract
Ten weeks feeding trial was conducted on growth response and economic benefit of replacing fishmeal with recycled dead chicken meal (DCM) in the diets of African catfish ( Clarias gariepinus ) fingerlings. Four isonitrogenous diets containing 40% crude protein were formulated in which DCM replaced fishmeal at 0, 30, 50 and 100% coded as DCD1, DCD2, DCD3 and DCD4 respectively. Results from the feeding trial indicated that all the fish fed the test ingredient (DCM) performed significantly (p 0.05) difference between fish fed reference diet (control) and those fed the DCM based diets in feed conversion ratio and protein efficiency ratio respectively. Nevertheless, this experiment revealed that recycled dead chicken meal can totally replaced fishmeal in the low cost and efficient diets for Clarias gariepinus without compromising performance.
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