Effect of replacing wheat bran with dried rumen digesta on the growth performance of Giant African Land Snail (Archachatina marginata)
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The effect of bovine rumen digesta (BRD) was replaced for wheat bran on the growth of Giant African land snail, GALS (Archachatina marginata). Results showed that BRD contained 14.89% crude protein, 5.0% crude fiber, 0.5% ether extract, 8.30% ash and 12.50% moisture. The final body weight, body weight gain, and feed conversion ratio of the snails differed (P< 0.05) across the treatments. Feed intake and body length measurements were observed to be similar (P ≥ 0.05) across the treatments. The BWG values were similar for the control (15.30 ± 1.06 g), T3 (17.30 ± 0.57 g) and T4 (16.87 ± 0.74 g) groups which were higher than those of T2 (12.07 ± 0.62 g). Similarly, FCR values for T1 (6.10 ± 0.16), T3 (6.40± 0.48) and T4 (5.73 ± 0.51) were recorded to be similar and were higher than T2 (8.3 ± 0.70). From the study, it was concluded that BRD could be fed to snails at the levels of 10-15% and as replacement for wheat bran for a cost effective snail production
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