Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication of Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia (SBZ), aimed at disseminating original unpublished research papers that cover the broad area of Animal Science such as Animal production systems and agribusiness, Forage, Nutrition, Breeding and genetics, Reproduction, Aquaculture, Biometeorology and Animal welfare.
Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication of Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia (SBZ), aimed at disseminating original unpublished research papers that cover the broad area of Animal Science such as Animal production systems and agribusiness, Forage, Nutrition, Breeding and genetics, Reproduction, Aquaculture, Biometeorology and Animal welfare.
Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia (RBZ) is a publication of Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia (SBZ), aimed at disseminating original unpublished research papers that cover the broad area of Animal Science such as Animal production systems and agribusiness, Forage, Nutrition, Breeding and genetics, Reproduction, Aquaculture, Biometeorology and Animal welfare.
01/Dec/2017
Magnolia Montoya-Mejía, Manuel García-Ulloa, Alfredo Hernández-Llamas, Hector Nolasco-Soria, Hervey Rodríguez-González
DOI: 10.1590/S1806-92902017001200001
ABSTRACT In this work, we studied the digestibility, growth, blood chemistry, and enzyme activity of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) juveniles (0.95±0.18 g) using different animal (fish silage meal, whey meal, bovine blood meal, and red crab meal) and plant (extruded bean, extruded chickpea meal, coconut paste, Jatropha curcas meal, and chickpea meal) dietary byproducts. Nine isocaloric diets (321.92±9.10 kcal g−1) were evaluated for 60 days. The highest digestibility of crude protein values for animal and plant sources were obtained for […]
Keywords: alternative byproducts; digestive response; formulated diets; growth performance; Nile tilapia; physiology