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FORMULATED FEED PREFERENCE FOR SURVIVAL AND OPTIMAL GROWTH OF Bulinus species REARED IN THE LABORATORY
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@MISC{Chris_formulatedfeed,
author = {Ikem Chris and Nduka Rose and Uzoamaka S},
title = {FORMULATED FEED PREFERENCE FOR SURVIVAL AND OPTIMAL GROWTH OF Bulinus species REARED IN THE LABORATORY},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
Seventy-seven Bulinus snail species were fed for eight weeks with eleven diets consisting o f different feed-formulations and vegetables. Snails reared exclusively on grower’s mash, corn fibre meal and fish meal did not survive for up to two weeks. The result from this investigation indicates that there is no significant difference in body growt h gain between lettuce + blood meal, lettuce + groundnut fibre meal, blood meal, lettuce and cabbage. But they showed significant di fference with lettuce + corn fibre meal and lettuce + fish meal. It is therefore recommended that in a situation where lettuce which is well known as the snail’s food is not available as during the peak of rainy season, feeds like blood meal and cabbage can be used as viable substitutes for rearing experimental Bulinus snail species in the laboratory. Also, lettuce + blood meal has been shown by this study as the best feed formulation for the optimal growth and development o f Bulinus sp in the laboratory.
Keyphrases
blood meal fish meal significant difference groundnut fibre meal lettuce corn fibre meal corn fibre meal lettuce blood meal eleven diet seventy-seven bulinus snail specie significant di fference feed formulation grower mash rainy season bulinus sp optimal growth viable substitute body growt different feed-formulations snail food experimental bulinus snail specie
