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Dietary utilization of selected vegetable proteins by mullet, Liza macrolepis

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Title Dietary utilization of selected vegetable proteins by
mullet, Liza macrolepis
 
Creator Easterson, D C V
Kandasamy, D
Paulraj, R
 
Subject Pelagic Fishes
 
Description  Seven feeds having 40%fat free protein from each one of the sources viz.coconut kernel oil cake, sesame
. seed oil cake, ground-nut oil uke, horse-gram, field-bean, bengal-gram and casein fortified with
phenylalanine, argenine and cystine were formulated. Casein was taken as the standard protein.
Carbohydrate content was kept at not less than 35%while lipid (Cod liver oil) content was maintained
at 5%vitamin mixture and mineral mixture (USPXIV) were at 2%level and Lambda varieties at 5%level
was used as the binder. Aftcr feeding Liza mncrolepis of 1.8 to 3.8 g (live weight with the experimental
diets once a day for 15 days to satation, the performance of the diets towards eight conversion indices
were ranked. The ranking of the vegetable proteins in the descending order of performance is as follows:
coconut,'bengal-gram, ground-nut, field-bean, sesame seed and horse-gram.
 
Publisher CMFRI/ICAR
 
Date 1989
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/547/1/Vol_36_No_1-65-67.pdf
Easterson, D C V and Kandasamy, D and Paulraj, R (1989) Dietary utilization of selected vegetable proteins by mullet, Liza macrolepis. Indian Journal of Fisheries, 36 (1). pp. 65-73.