Vol. 12, Special Issue 9 (2023)

Author(s):
Priti Mishra, Mohan Singh Thakur and Asad Khan

Abstract:
The present study was carried out to determine the proximate composition of various poultry and fish feed ingredients in the feed samples obtained from the feed lots supplied to Phoenix Poultry, and several poultry and fish farmers or feed suppliers of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh states. The samples were subjected to proximate analysis, the parameters studied were percentage of moisture, crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, total ash nitrogen free extract and acid insoluble ash. The data generated after proximate analysis was expressed as lest square means and standard errors of each proximate principles for each feed ingredients. The results of proximate analysis revealed that higher moisture content was recorded for fish meal, whereas higher crude protein, crude fat and crude fibre content were observed in maize gluten, rice polish and de-oiled rice bran, respectively. For proximate principles total ash and acid insoluble ash, higher mean values were recorded for fish meal and whereas maize shown higher content of nitrogen free extract. Proximate composition of the examined poultry and fish feed ingredients was in accordance to feed specification mentioned by Bureau of Indian Standard, which indicating that feed ingredients were of optimum quality.