CATFISH GROWING TIPS FROM THE INTEGRATED FARMER

1. Buy your fingerlings from a reliable source. Be sure that the sizes are uniform so that you will minimize shooters or the fast growers which will cannibalize the other fingerlings. Use high quality catfish feed which has the right amount of protein and amino acids;
2. Alan no longer size his fingerlings but he feeds them ad libitum so that the fingerlings will not prey on the others;

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   Catfish pond is surrounded by cardaba banana which were originally
   

    

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   Once the fingerlings reach a size were they can already eat chicken entrails and other protein sources, add these to their diet but they should first be cooked. Make friends with people who have sources of entrails and other protein sources. Use farm surplus as friendship tokens so that you can establish long term friendship that will allow you to get preference in limited supplies like chicken entrails;
4. Up to marketable or harvestible size, feed the catfish ad libitum so that they will no longer move about and “walk” during heavy rains;
5. Harvest when they have achieved 300 to 500 grams since after that the conversion rate is slow;
6. It is best to practice all in and all out then dry the ponds to avoid remnants feeding off the new batch of fingerlings;