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ThesisItem Open Access Development of moist and semi moist cat feed from uneconomical fresh water weed fishes(G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar - 263145 (Uttarakhand), 2022-01) Ali, Armaan; Upadhyay, A.K.The present study was carried out to investigate, best wet cat diet composition that can be a source to provide optimum dietary nutrition to different pet cat breeds. Cat foods that are generally available in the market , generally use chicken and marine fish as their raw material that are costly and these feeds only provide minimum amount of energy to the pets to carry out their daily physical activities. Therefore using more cost efficient and nutrionally rich source of raw material as a replacement for these raw materials can be used as a stratergy for fulfilling the daily dietary needs of a pet and thereby also lowering the cost of raw materials used for production of feed. Fish meal developed by wet reduction process in the current study have good proximate chemical profile and being in concentrated form, is a good source of animal protein. It aided in development of different moist and semi moist diets that can be used for feeding of cats which were more nutritious than the products that are already available in the market. Attempt was made to develop varied protein content diet samples using fish meal as a primary source of protein along with chicken meat that resulted in making of T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5 samples with protein content 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 percent respectively. The other proximate chemical, sensorial and acceptability attributes of these samples were also analysed during the study. Diet samples T4 and T5 were found to be the best diet composition in terms of fulfilling high protein and energy requirement of cat, also the two samples were favoured during the acceptability studies by the cat owners. Whereas in terms of cost efficacy T2 and T4 were found to be the best as they were economically cheaper and with the low cost they can fulfill the criteria of both moist and semi moist diets. Use of fish meal as raw material was found to be effective as it had improved all the nutritional quality parameters especially protein content of different diet samples and also was acceptable when fed to cats. Overall T4 was observed to be the best diet composition.
