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Apparent and True Metabolizable Energy in Artemia Meal

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Abolfazl Zarei
Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Iran
DOI 10.3923/ijps.2006.627.628
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Abstract

For determination of metabolizable energy of artemia meal and comparison with fish meal, samples gathered from 3 regions include : Urmia Lake Artemia, Earth Ponds Artemia (beside urmia lake) and Ghom Salt Lake Artemia. Then samples dried, milled and used in a biological experiment with fish meal. 20 Rhode Island Red cockerels with approximately same live weight used in Sibbald assay with completely randomized design with 5 treatments and 4 repetitions for determination of AME, AMEn, TME and TMEn. Results showed there were significant differences between treatments from standpoints of metabolizable energy (P< 0.05). ULAM and FM had highest ME and EPAM and GLAM had lowest ME. The highest TME belong to FM and the lowest TME pertained to EPAM. Except to EPAM that had the lowest TMEn, other treatments didn`t have any differences between them.

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Artemia meal, fish meal, metabolizable energy

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Zarei, A. (2006). Apparent and True Metabolizable Energy in Artemia Meal. International Journal of Poultry Science, 5(7), 627–628. https://doi.org/10.3923/ijps.2006.627.628