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This study was designed to evaluate the nutritive potential of replacing Kola Pod Husk (KPH) with conventional and increasingly expensive Maize meal in the diet of Clarias gariepinus . Diets were formulated with KPH meal replacing maize meal at 0%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% and fed to the fish for 56 days. Result reveal a high level of protein in KPH (28.05) compared to maize meal, nutritional trial further revealed that KPH could completely replaced maize meal without adverse effect on growth. Carcass analysis of the fish fed 25% KPH however had the highest protein and lipid retention (17.17 and 4.28 respectively), respectively compared to others. It was concluded that replacing maize meal completely with KPH improves growth and performance of Clarias gariepinus . |
