Table 9. Feed formulae
(ingredient composition) and proximate composition of commonly used pellet
feed for different life stages in intensive farming system |
Ingredient/proximate
composition (% dry matter) |
Life stages/size class |
Fingerling (Tahiti) (a) |
Grower (Malaysia) (b) |
Ingredient composition
(%) |
|
|
Fish meal |
34 |
34 |
Fish concentrate |
20 |
|
Meat and bone meal |
4 |
10 |
Alfalfa |
3 |
|
Soybean |
10 |
|
Soybean meal |
|
15 |
Sesame cake meal,
expellar |
|
5 |
Groundnut meal, expellar |
|
5 |
Whole wheat |
8 |
|
Rice bran, solvent
extracted |
|
10 |
Leaf meal |
|
5 |
Tapioca |
|
8 |
Dry whey |
4 |
|
Yeast |
10 |
|
Vitamin & Mineral
mixture |
3.4 |
1 |
Soybean or corn oil |
|
4 |
Squid or pollack liver
oil |
|
3 |
Capelin oil |
4 |
|
BHT |
|
0.02 |
Ethoxyquin |
|
0.015 |
Proximate composition
(%) |
|
|
Dry matter |
|
|
Crude protein |
48 |
38.7 |
Crude lipid |
10.6 |
13.9 |
Ash |
7.9 |
14.1 |
Crude fibre |
|
5.5 |
NFE |
|
27.1 |
Gross energy (kJ/g feed) |
20.5 |
|
Cost (US$/kg) |
|
0.36 |
Data source: (a) Kanazawa (1984); (b) Aquacop et al.
(1989) |
|
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