Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances

Year: 2005
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Page No. 417 - 419

Response of Juvenile Giant Land Snail Achartina marginata Fed Varying Levels of Cocoa Pod Husk

Authors : Adeyemo A. I.

Abstract: Fresh cocoa pod husks were collected from cocoa farms near the Federal University of Technology Akure.The cocoa pod husks were sun dried and milled thoroughly. It was then mixed at different levels to replace maize in the experimental diets. The proximate analysis was determined. The cocoa pod husk(CPH) was used to replace maize in the diets of juvenile giant land snails Achartina marginata. 48 hatchlings of the snail were used for a feeding trial. There were four treatments with three replicates .There were four diets in which maize was replaced at 0,20,40 and 60% CPH. The animals were fed ,ad libitum .The snail pens were cleaned everyday while the soil in the snail pens were changed fortnightly. The experiment lasted 12 weeks . The following parameters were determined: feed intake, weight gain, feed conversion, empty shell weight, edible flesh weight and shell length.The results show that there was a significant difference ( P<0.05) in weight gain ,feed conversion and weight of edible flesh between only the snails fed the 0 and 60% CPH diets. However, there was no significant difference between the control and the diets where CPH replaced maize up to 40 % level of substitution in all the parameters tested. Mortality was low in all the diets. It was concluded that cocoa pod husk like most other farm waste products, could easily replace maize in the diet of juvenile giant snail without any adverse effects on the animal.

How to cite this article:

Adeyemo A. I. , 2005. Response of Juvenile Giant Land Snail Achartina marginata Fed Varying Levels of Cocoa Pod Husk . Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 4: 417-419.

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