Table 8. List of commonly used supplementary ingredients in mrigal feeds. All values are expressed in % as-fed basis | ||||||
Feed ingredients | Nutrient composition (%) | |||||
Moisture | Crude protein | Crude lipid | Crude fiber | NFE | Ash | |
Feeds of plant origin | ||||||
Mustard cake | 9.5 | 36.3 | 8.9 | 8.1 | 29 | 8.2 |
Groundnut cake | 9.6-10.0 | 30.2-46.2 | 9 | 23-25.2 | 22.0-29.1 | 8.6 |
Sesame cake | 8 | 21.1 | 46.5 | 7.6 | 12.2 | 10.4 |
Soybean | 8.8-9.1 | 24.1-37.8 | 10.0-17.8 | 4.9-17.3 | 25.6-33.2 | 4.8-6.6 |
Linseed cake | 9.9-10.7 | 33.6-34.1 | 1.3-5.4 | 9.1-9.5 | 35.6-38.9 | 5.9-6 |
Cottonseed cake | 7.8-10.7 | 21.9-41.2 | 4.9-5.9 | 11.1-21.9 | 27.6-34.9 | 6.4-5.7 |
Salseed cake | 5.4 | 34.3 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 52.4 | 4.3 |
Copra cake | 12.7 | 23 | 12.9 | 6.6 | 39.3 | 5.5 |
Sunflower oil cake | 7.3-9.7 | 30.8-43.4 | 1.5-9.3 | 12.3-24.8 | 21.8-27.2 | 6.3-7 |
Rapeseed cake | 8.1-9 | 34.1-37.3 | 1.9-7.9 | 11.4-12.8 | 30.6-33.2 | 6.5-7.2 |
Rice bran | 10 | 12.2 | 11.8 | 12.3 | 40.6 | 13.1 |
Rice polish | 10 | 12.1 | 11.5 | 4.7 | 52.9 | 8.8 |
Wheat bran | 12.1 | 14.7 | 4 | 9.9 | 53.5 | 5.8 |
Wheat flour | 12 | 11.7 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 73.3 | 0.5 |
Maize meal | 12.5 | 9 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 68 | 2.5 |
Feeds of animal origin | ||||||
Fishmeal | 7.0-9.0 | 57.0-72.7 | 4.0-9.0 | 0.8-1.0 | 0.8-4.4 | 10.0-26.0 |
Silkworm pupae | 7.1 | 43.9 | 25.7 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 15.8 |
Data source: Tacon (1987); Nandeesha (1993); Mukhopadhyay and Ray (1999) |