Preparation, storage stability and palatability of spent hen meal based pet food.

摘要: Extruded pet foods were prepared by extrusion process incorporating dry rendered spent hen meal (SHM) at 10 and 20% levels, packed in LDPE bags before storage room temperature (35 ± 2°C) up to 45 days. The colour of the was uniformly brown with pleasant meaty odour. thiobarbituric acid, tyrosine values, free fatty acid content value total bacterial counts increased gradually during but E.coli, Salmonella spp, Clostridium Staphylococci spp fungi not detected storage. owners rated as good. body weight adult dogs did decrease feeding trial one month health condition pets cost production per kg food containing SHM Rs 18.00 22.75, respectively. It concluded that a (whole meal) good nutritive quality palatability can be 10–20% which safely stored days temperature.