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    Effect of utilizing a combination of cow and chicken manures as organic fertilizer in fish pond
    Babalola, Julius (College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of the Philippines Visayas, 1986-03)
    An experiment was conducted utilizing twenty 40m2 ponds to investigate the effect of a combination of cow and chicken manures at the following ratios: 1000 kg/ha chicken manure: 3000 kg/ha cow manure; 1000 kg/ha chicken manure: 1000 kg/ha cow manure; 2000 kg/ha chicken manure only; 4000 kg/ha cow manure only; and no manure (control), on some selected physico-chemical properties of the pond, soil and water, primary productivity and production of red tilapia (0. mossambicus x 0. niloticus hybrid) fol­lowing an (RCBD) - randomized complete block design. Each pond was stocked with 40 fingerlings of red tila­pia and cultured for a 90-day period, at the Brackishwater Aquaculture Center of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, College of Fisheries, Leganes, Iloilo, Philippines. Soil was analyzed for organic matter, phosphorus, nitrogen, pH, using Walkley and Black method, Olsen’s method, Kjehdahl method and pH meter respectively, following standard procedures described in method of soil analysis part II, (Black, 1965). Water oxygen was determined with YSI model 51-B, oxygen meter, salinity with Goldberg’s T/C refractometer pH with pH meter, phosphorus and NH3 - Nitrogen by methods described by Strickland and Parson, 1972. Reactive phosphorus of pond water improved due to the treatments, and supported fish food production leading to the high net fish yield obtained. Primary productivity, an index of living organisms in the pond, was high and suggests that the different treat­ments supported adequate fish food production. The highest net fish yield (651.03 kg/ha) was recorded in treatment IV (4 tons/ha cow manure only), while the lowest net yield (299.31 kg/ha) was recorded in treatment V (control). Treatments I (1 ton chicken manure and 3 tons cow manure/ ha) and II (1 ton chicken manure and 1 ton cow manure/ha) produced similar net fish yield, 431.97 kg/ha and 431.95 kg/ha, respectively. Treatment III, 2 tons/ha chicken manure only) gave a better net fish yield of 474.82 kg/ha, than treatments I and II. Cow manure can compare with chicken manure as organic fertilizer, in brackish water fish ponds for tilapia. A combination of 1 ton chicken manure and 1 ton cow manure per hectare could be as productive as 2 tons/ha chicken manure only, in tilapia production.
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    Effect of cow and chicken manures on milkfish Chanos chanos (Forsskal) production in brackishwater ponds
    Aduma, Ignatius A. (College of Fisheries, University of the Philippines in the Visayas, 1984-05)
    A study using chicken and cow manures with basal application rates of 0.5 , 1,2 and 4 tons/ha was conducted. The effect of both manures on some selected physico­-chemical properties of the pond soil and water, primary productivity, and milkfish Chanos chanos (Forsskal) yield were compared. Using 8 treatments with 3 replicates each in a completely randomized design, 24 units of 40 m2 ponds were stocked with 20 fingerlings/pond. The fish were cultured from September 22 to December 20, 1983 at the Brackishwater Aquaculture Center of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas College of Fisheries, Leganes, Iloilo, Philippines. The differences among treatments in terms of all physico-chemical parameters monitored were not significant except for the reactive phosphorus. Primary productivity in all treatments was at its peak during the 5th week, after which, it declined gradually apparently due to the combined effects of cloudy weather and low concentration of reactive phosphorus in the pond water. The highest mean net fish yield (680.9 kg/ha) and mean growth rate (1,54 g/day) were obtained in treatment 3 with 1 ton/ha of chicken manure. Treatment 2 (0*5 ton/ha of cow manure) had the lowest mean net fish yield (343.6 kg/ha) and likewise the lowest growth rate (0.80 g/day). The survival in all treatments was high, ranging from 95 to 100%. In general, chicken manure was superior to cow manure, however, fish production from the treatment with 2 tons/ha of cow manure was comparable to that of 2 tons/ha of chicken manure suggesting that cow manure could be used as organic fertilizer in brackish- water ponds for milkfish production.