Reproductive performance of laying snails (Archachatina marginata) fed on roughages and different concentrate mixes

Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 2 Reproductive performance of laying snails fed with roughages and concentrate with different leaf proteins

	UPWP	GNCD	GLLM	MOLM	LLLM	± SEM	p value
Initial weight (g/snail)	153.57	165.53	156.33	151.27	174.53	3.75	0.83
Final weight (g/snail)	211.36^b	259.45^a	241.16^a	246.00^a	259.26^a	7.70	0.04
Weight gain (g/d/snail)	0.69^c	1.24^a	1.13^b	1.13^b	1.01^b	0.03	0.03
Feed intake (g/snail/day)	4.87^a	2.69^b	2.62^b	2.60^b	2.6.0^b	0.30	0.03
Average egg laid per snail	2.26^c	5.07^b	8.13^a	6.07^ab	6.87^ab	2.07	0.04
Hatchability of eggs (%)	60.47^c	82.35^b	83.76^b	90.48^a	93.20^a	3.26	0.01
Fertility of eggs (%)	66.15^d	74.73^c	76.97^c	82.35^b	94.50^a	2.84	0.03
Embryo mortality	39.53^a	17.65^b	16.24^b	9.52^bc	6.80^c	5.05	0.03
No. of juveniles per snail	1.21^c	3.55^b	7.97^a	5.29^ab	6.88^a	0.86	0.02

abc: means along the same row with different superscripts are significantly (p < 0.05) different