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Effects of feeding an aquatic weed Lemna trisulaca as partial replacement of fish meal on the performance of growing ducklings
Author(s) -
Hamid Md A,
Chowdhury Sachchidananda D,
Razzak Md A,
Roy Chitta R
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740610123
Subject(s) - fish meal , lemna , meal , biology , food science , fish <actinopterygii> , feed conversion ratio , zoology , body weight , botany , fishery , endocrinology
Growing ducklings were fed diets containing an aquatic weed Lemna trisulaca meal (LTM) replacing, on a protein basis, either 40, 60 or 80 g kg −1 of the fish meal (FM) from a control diet which contained 120 g FM kg −1. Partial replacement of FM (40 and 60 g kg −1 of the FM) by LTM on a protein basis showed good growth and low food consumption but food conversion efficiency was found to be comparable. It was concluded that LTM could be considered as a protein feed supplement for growing ducklings and also as a part replacement of animal protein (FM) in the nutrition of growing ducklings without deleterious effect on performance.