Evaluating the biological conversion of paddy husk to house fly, Musca domestica L (Diptera: Muscidae) pupa powder: a study of house fly as animal feed
The sector of livestock and aquaculture are growing rapidly in order to meet the incremental demand of essential protein for the world’s population. However, the supply of plant-based animal feed was limited by resources such as land and water. The opportunity for insect as the substitute to ani...
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Pusat Sistematik Serangga, Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2015
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10959/1/12716-34729-1-SM.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10959/ http://ejournal.ukm.my/serangga/issue/view/753/showToc |
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| Summary: | The sector of livestock and aquaculture are growing rapidly in
order to meet the incremental demand of essential protein for
the world’s population. However, the supply of plant-based
animal feed was limited by resources such as land and water.
The opportunity for insect as the substitute to animal feed is
tremendous; nonetheless, little attention was taken in Malaysia.
In this study, low value bio-waste, paddy husks, which were in
pellet form were prior ground and dried, then fed to larva of
common house fly, Musca domestica L (Diptera: Muscidae).House fly pupae were collected, dried and ground into powder
for analysis. Weight-conversion and nutrition value were studied
by applying standard AOAC and FAO methods. The paddy husk
to pupa weight conversion was 4.10%, in other words, 41g
housefly pupae powder could obtained from 1kg of paddy husk.
For the nutritional analysis, house fly pupae powder consists of
68.90% crude protein, which was significantly higher that the
paddy husk (15.65% crude protein, <0.001). This study
indicating a significant conversion of a low value material to
highly protein contained animal feed and this transformation
was crucial in providing an alternative solution for animal feed. |
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