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Table 2 Ingredients and proximate composition of the formulated diets (%)

From: Nutritional evaluation of a short-horned grasshopper‚ Oxya hyla hyla (Serville) meal as a substitute of fishmeal in the compound diets of rohu, Labeo rohita (Hamilton)

Ingredient (%)

RD

TD

D1

D2

D3

D4

D5

D6

D7

Oxya meal

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

Fishmeal

30

25

20

15

10

5

0

Soybean meal

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

Mustard oil cake

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

Rice bran

25

30

12

4

10

12

13

Wheat flour

8

3

21

29

23

21

20

CMC

3

3

3

3

3

3

3

Vitamin and minerals

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Chromic oxide

1

1

1

1

1

1

1

Proximate composition (% of dry matter)

 Crude protein

33.15 ± 1.69

33. 81 ± 1.70

33.08 ± 1.72

33.55 ± 1.86

33.33 ± 1.97

34.16 ± 1.87

34.23 ± 1.70

 Crude lipid

6.84 ± 0.21

6.76 ± 0.44

5.78 ± 0.48

5.40 ± 0.43

5.05 ± 0.86

4.64 ± 0.50

4.24 ± 0.32

 Carbohydrate

48.05 ± 1.80

46.47 ± 1.82

51.97 ± 1.79

52.28 ± 1.94

52.99 ± 1.99

53.93 ± 2.08

54.72 ± 1.70

 Ash

11.97 ± 0.45

12.95 ± 0.35

9.17 ± 0.32

8.78 ± 0.43

8.62 ± 0.47

7.26 ± 0.39

6.81 ± 0.39

 Crude fibre

8.62 ± 0.33

10.05 ± 0.24

7.17 ± 0.50

7.35 ± 0.48

7.82 ± 0.64

7.67 ± 0.44

7.92 ± 0.76

 Nitrogen-free extract

39.43 ± 1.92

36.42 ± 1.78

44.80 ± 1.87

44.93 ± 1.80

45.17 ± 1.99

46.27 ± 2.18

46.81 ± 1.89

 ME (Kcal 100 g−1)

344.96 ± 2.32

336.81 ± 3.36

354.42 ± 3.92

353.68 ± 3.26

350.68 ± 3.36

354.71 ± 3.82

353.46 ± 2.60

  1. Means with ±SD are values of triplicate groups. RD reference diet; TD test diet; CMC carboxy methyl cellulose, vitamin and mineral mixture (Supradyn, Abbott Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India); ME metabolised energy (Kcal 100 g−1)