Investigations on quantity and proximate quality of maggots produced from two substrates (cattle blood and poultry droppings) containing varying levels of sawdust

Abstract

This study was conducted to evaluate the quantity and proximate quality of maggots produced from different livestock wastes. The livestock wastes used in this experiment were poultry droppings at 0%, 10% and 20% sawdust inclusion levels and cattle blood at 0%, 10% and 20% sawdust inclusion levels. The experiment was conducted in an open environment under the room temperature. Results from this experiment suggest that a 10% sawdust inclusion could optimize the quantity and proximate composition, especially protein, of maggots produced from cattle blood and poultry droppings.