Maggots production as proteins source for young poultry in Togo. Preliminary observations | Production d'asticots comme source de proteines pour jeunes volailles au Togo. Observations preliminaires
2000
Ekoue, S.E. | Hadzi, Y.A. (Centre de Recherche agronomique, Agou-Gare (France))
Experiments on maggots production was conducted in Togo during December 1998. The substrate used was the rumen content in the open air ten hours before covered with mosquito-net. In the day-2 we observed small maggots but in the day-3 we had big maggots which can be manipulated. The pupae appear in the day 4 and 5 when flies begin growing up in de day-9. A total of 1200 maggots was obtained with a substrate weighing 6.5 kg. A sample of 220 maggots permit us to have 0.05 g as mean weight of one maggot. Those tests will show us the veritable effect of maggots use as feed in poultry production.
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