Re: Bangladesh - H5N1 Spreads to 6 poultry farms
Well -- here's a study done by the FAO in the '90s on combining poultry (chicken) raising with fish farming -- specifically catfish farming (Clarias gariepinus). One of the study locales was Biman Poultry Farms in Savar, Bangladesh:
Wonder if they're still farming cat-fish there?
And, again, all I have to say is -- ewwwww!
Well -- here's a study done by the FAO in the '90s on combining poultry (chicken) raising with fish farming -- specifically catfish farming (Clarias gariepinus). One of the study locales was Biman Poultry Farms in Savar, Bangladesh:
Wonder if they're still farming cat-fish there?
And, again, all I have to say is -- ewwwww!
Thus the fish was continuously fed by the chicken (housed above the pond water) in the form of excreta and waste feed. In addition, supplementary feed was given in small quantity for magur. The chicken house was built on the pond water surface making provisions for the chicken excreta and waste feed to drop directly in the water below the floor of the chicken-house. This arrangement allowed the magur to feed on the chicken excreta and waste feed as they dropped in the water.
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