Acceptability of newly formulated fish feed by freshwater fish Oreochromis mossambicus

Abstract

In India, fishery sector has great share of inland fishery. Though the availability of resources is high aquaculture has only 10% contribution as many factors are responsible for success in aquaculture. One of them is feed production for aquaculture fishes. Alimentary canal of chicken is a good source of protein which goes waste as it is not consumed by humans, considering the rich protein content we used dried chicken gut powder along with wheat flour and garlic juice; and tested it on fresh water fish Oreochromis mossambicus for its feeding rate. The results indicated that the formulation of feed with ratio 7:3 (dried chicken gut powder: wheat flour) and 10 drops of garlic juice has maximum feeding rate as compared to others.