Utilization of Gabus Pasir fish waste meal (Butis Amboinensis) to substitute commercial fish meal on Pekin duck’s performance

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine to the effect of the utilization of Gabus Pasir (Butis amboinensis) waste fish meal (GPWFM) as a substitute for commercial fish meal (CFM) on feed consumption, body weight gain, final weight, and feed conversion ratio of Pekin duck at 8 weeks. This research method uses a completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments and 4 replications, each replication consisting of 5 day old duck. The treatments consisted of P0 (diet with 10% CFM); P1 (diet with 7.5% CFM and 2.5% GPWFM); P2 (diet with 5% CFM and 5% GPWFM); P3 (diet with 2.5% CFM and 7.5% GPWFM) and P4 (diet with 10% GPWFM). Based on the analysis of variance, it showed that all treatments did not have a significantly effect (P>0.05) on feed consumption, body weight gain, final weight and feed conversion ratio of Pekin ducks at the age of 8 weeks of maintenance. It can be concluded that Gabus Pasir fish waste meal can be used in diet to substitute commercial fish meal at a level of 100%, that is 10% of the level of fish meal in the diet.