ISSN:
1365-2109
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
The apparent digestibility of protein, fats, carbohydrate and energy within three feed ingredients (wheat, barley and corn) for common carp, Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, was studied, using chromic oxide as a dietary marker. Each experimental diet consisted of a mixture of the test ingredient and 50% basal diet (containing 50% soybean meal, 35% wheat meal, 10% soybean oil, plus 5% vitamins, egg yolk, guar and chromic oxide). It was found that in wheat meal the protein had an apparent digestibility of 92%, and the lipid an apparent digestibility of 80%. The apparent digestibility of corn was 81% for protein and 90% for lipid, while for barley the figures were 73% and 67%, respectively. For apparent digestible energy, the figures were 12.39 kJ g−1 for wheat, 6.69 kJ g−1 for barley and 9.32 kJ g−1 for corn.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2109.1997.00895.x
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