Table 8. Feed formulae (ingredient composition) and proximate composition of commonly used farm-made feed* for mullet fingerling in semi-intensive farming system
Ingredient/proximate�
composition (% dry matter)	Fingerling (a)	Fingerling (b)	Fingerling (c)
Ingredient composition (%)
Biscuit by-products	20
Blood meal		5
Bone meal		2
Brewery wastes		15
Corn oil			3
Cotton seed cake		30
Cotton seed meal			15
Fish meal	4	5	29.5
Fish oil			3
Limestone	0.8
Meat meal	4
Poultry droppings	10
Rice bran		15	7
Salt	0.4
Sesame cake		7.75
Soybean meal	10		29.5
Starch			2
Wheat bran		20	7
Wheat milling by-products	60.6
Vitamins		0.25	2*
Minerals			2**
Vitamin and minerals	0.2
Binder
Proximate composition (%)
Dry matter	90.8	39.1	93.9
Crude protein	22.46	27.9	34.7
Crude lipid	4.94	6.3	9.6
Ash	11.91	10.6	15.5
Crude fibre	4.85	11.2
NFE	58.84	37.1
Gross energy (kJ/g feed)			18.9
Cost (US$/kg)
Data source: (a) El-Ghobashy et al. (1993), (b) Essa (1996), (c) Abd El Ghany et al. (1995)
* see table 16
** see table 17 (a)