NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS OF NON-CONVENTIONAL FEED RESOURCE

Nutrition is important factor influencing the ability of cultured fish to exhibit its genetic potential for growth and reproduction. They are greatly influenced by factors such as quality of feed, daily ratio, size, feed intake and physico-chemical parameters of water. The economic viability of the culture operation depends on the feed and feeding frequency. It means that nutritionally wellbalanced diets and their adequate feeding are the main requirements for successful culture operations. Commercialized feed presented to cultured species is not only nutritionally wellbalanced, but also readily ingested with minimum waste production and digested and assimilated in an expected manner. Fish nutrition has advanced dramatically in recent years with development of new, balanced commercial diet that promotes optimal fish growth and health. Hence in the present study blood of bovine animal and deoiled groundnut cake is used to formulate the feed in Various combinations that is from 100% blood formulated feed to 100% conventional feed that is deoiled groundnut cake feed. The analytical results revel's that formulated feed is nutritionally rich as compared to conventional feed.