~ 2495 ~ Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 2019; 8(3): 2495-2499 E-ISSN: 2278-4136 P-ISSN: 2349-8234 JPP 2019; 8(3): 2495-2499 Received: 04-03-2019 Accepted: 06-04-2019 Iqra Khursheed Division of Livestock Production and Management, Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Sahar Masud Division of Livestock Production and Management, Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Asma Khan Division of Livestock Production and Management, Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Sourab Dua Division of Livestock products Technology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Simran Kour Division of Livestock products Technology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Ifra Khursheed Department of Food Technology, Government women polytechnic Collage, Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir, India Correspondence Iqra Khursheed Division of Livestock Production and Management, Sher-e- Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Jammu and Kashmir, India Impact of Azolla fed poultry excreta on water qualities and performance of common carp Iqra Khursheed, Sahar Masud, Asma Khan, Sourab Dua, Simran Kour and Ifra Khursheed Abstract An attempt was made to study the impact of excreta from poultry birds fed with different levels of Azolla on water quality and performance of common carp. Day old broiler chicks were reared and brooded for 14 days on commercial pre-starter diet and from 15 th day broilers were supplemented with 2 and 4% Azolla in their basal feed. Excreta from these birds were collected, sun dried and mixed with basal diet of fishes in ratio of 50:50 (Basal diet: excreta). 60 fingerlings of common carp were procured from Government fish hatchery, Jammu, acclimatized for one month with basal feed and regular water exchange. Experimental water in tubs of 100 L capacity was treated in duplicates along with control for a period of 28 days. There were no mortality and adverse impact was observed in behaviour of experimental fish. No significant differences were observed in growth parameters of fishes which may be attributed to short duration of experiment. All the water quality parameters were found to be in permissible limits indicating that Azolla fed poultry excreta did not have any adverse impact on water quality and performance of fish. Based on the observation it is revealed that Azolla may be used as a supplementary feed ingredient under poultry fish integration system. Keywords: Feeding, excreta, poultry, Azolla, fish Introduction Poultry industry has become one of the largest and fastest growing sectors of livestock production globally and in India. As per livestock censes 2011-12 (Annual report, Govt. of India, 2018) poultry has a population of 729.2 million with an increase of 12.39% over the previous census, 2007. Availability of quality feed at a reasonable cost is a key to successful poultry operation. Alternative feed sources are being studied to reduce the cost of feed in poultry sector without affecting its production (Basak et al., 2002) [4] . Poultry and fish can be integrated in many ways and benefit can be extend to both i.e recycling of wastes of poultry, additional source of income from same unit land, diversification of products and employment (Sharma et al., 1998; Kumar et al., 2012) [22, 14] . The feed given to the livestock is voided as excretory waste including non-digested feed, metabolic excretory products and residues resulting from microbial synthesis contains considerable amount of nutrients for fish production (Fashakin et al., 2002) [9] . Due to the short digestive tract of poultry, 80% of chicken manure includes undigested feed-stuff (Chen, 1981) with as high as 20-30% total protein (Pudadera et al, 1986) [18] . Thus, the type of feed ingredients fed to the poultry can affect the subsequent manure quality which if use in fish pond may affect the pond environment and productivity. Chicken excreta can be used either directly on-site, through the sitting of poultry houses over ponds, or after collection, storage and transport to the site of fish culture (Little and Satapornvanit., 1996) [15] . However, literature is lacking on such studies have been taken place on the utility of poultry droppings from birds fed with different feed ingredient for fish culture. Hence, the present study was designed to access the impact of excreta from Azolla fed poultry on water quality and growth performance of Common carp in poultry fish integration. Materials and Method 28 days experiment was conducted during the month of September-October, 2017. The poultry was reared for 42 days including 14 days of brooding period with commercial diet. The birds were fed on experimental diet from 15 th day on words till 42 days. Birds and their management Day old unsexed chicks were weighed and brooded for 14 days on deep litter system. After brooding chicks were randomly distributed to three treatment groups of similar body weight