Learn to Prepare Fish Feeds

Some essential ingredients for feeds and their sources include:

• Protein—fish meal, groundnut cake, soyabean meal, blood meal, palm kernel cake and cotton seed cake.
• Carbonhydrate—cereals, meals and brans and cassava wastes.
• Lipids—Palm, groundnut, palm kernel and fish oils.
• Minerals—bone meal and common salt.

The following steps are important in the preparation of fish feed:

• Collect raw feed stuffs
• Weigh the required quantity of various feed ingredients according to the attached formulation specification.
• Grind ingredients to powdery form
• Cook the mixture with small water and add cooked cassava or corn starch
• Stir the mixture as cooking is going on to get a consistent paste
• Reduce the dough into smaller sizes by pressing against a perforated plate.
• Cut pellet strands into smaller sizes
• Dry the pellets in the sun
• Package dried pellets into bags for storage till it’s needed