The study was conducted to analyse the micro-climatic variables and the performance of Large White Yorkshire sows in three different farrowing housing systems, viz., conventional farrowing house with guard rail and one-third slatted floor (T1), farrowing house with guard rail and floor level...

Pork production in India has almost doubled from 0.204 MT to 0.402 MT in last decade (2007-08 to 2017-18). Best utilization of pen space without adversely affecting the productivity and well-being of pigs is crucial for pork sector. Most of the developed countries recommend floor space requirement...

Twenty four weaned Tellicherry kids were randomly distributed into different stall fed housing systems viz., conventional housing pen with concrete floor (T₁), pen with elevated wooden slatted floor (T₂) and pen with elevated polyurethane slatted floor (T₃) at URF, Madhavaram. The daily temperature ...

A study was conducted in selected areas of Dahod and Kheda districts of Middle Gujarat to ascertain the housing and feeding management practices followed by goat keepers. The data was collected from randomly selected 240 goat keepers (120 each from Dahod and Kheda district) through personal...

The study was carried out to assess the effect of stocking density on the growth and survival of GIF Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) for a period of 90 days from June to August 2016 in the Perumpallam reservoir, Erode District, Tamil Nadu. Uniform size tilapia fingerlings with an average weight of...

An experiment was carried out to evaluate the growth performance and yield of Labeo bata reared in cages at different stocking densities in a floodplain wetland of Assam, India. Fifteen cages (effective water volume 40 m³ each) installed in the wetland were stocked with fingerlings of L. bata (mean ...

The present study was carried out to evaluate the effects of stocking density on growth performance of stunted fingerlings of Labeo bata in cages for a period of 180 days, at Maithon reservoir, Jharkhand, India. L. bata (8.80 + 0.67 cm; 6.18 ± 1.32 g) were reared at three stocking densities of 50...

Aim: Pangasius pangasius, a species of freshwater shark catfish native to Mekong River is highly resistant to crowding and low oxygen therefore, can be a suitable species for cage aquaculture. The objective of the present study was to standardize the stocking density of catfish P. pangasius in pond ...

A 90 days trial was carried out to investigate the impact of stocking density on growth performances and the health status of Puntius sarana in inland open water cages (Salia Dam of Odisha, India). The fishes of mean body weight 32.04 ± 1.25 g were stocked @ three stocking densities (SD) i.e., 10 m...

One of the important factors determining the success in open sea floating cage farming is the availability of quality seeds of appropriate size. The commercially available hatchery produced seeds should be further reared to appropriate size before stocking in the sea cages. The Asian seabass, hates ...