EFFECT OF GINGER (Zingiver officinale) and GARLIC (Allium sativum) SUPPLEMENTED DIET ON SOME HEAMATOLOGICAL INDICES OF Clariasgariepinus BURCHELL, 1822

Nutrition is the main factor determining the potential of farmed fish to exhibit their growth capacity as a function of the protein content and certain additives contained in the diet. Thus, the present study was conducted to access dietry supplementation effect of Ginger and Garlic as feed additives of blood heamatological analysis for Clarias gariepinus fingerlings.in this experiment, following a week of acclimatization 180 fingerlings were randomly divided into triplicate in four treatment containing fifteen fingerlings each and fed for 56 days. In treatment 1(T1) fingerlings are fed with control basal diet, treatment 2(T2) are fed with basal diet containing 1% garlic and treatment 3(T3) are fed with basal diet containing 1% Ginger while treatment4(T4) are fed with basal diet containing 1% mixture of Ginger and Garlic. The main water quality parameters were recorded on weekly basis. After the feeding trials the blood samples were analysed using NORTEK GENESIS MODEL HA6000 automatic haematology analyzer at laboratory department of federal medical center birnin kudu. Fish fed with basal diet containing 1% Ginger (T3) recorded the best heamatological result interms of Redblood cells(RBC),white blood cells(WBC),Heamoglobin concentrations(HGB), monocytes, MVC,HCT,MVC and lymphocytes. In conclusion Clarias gariepinus fingerlings fed with1% dietry inclusions level of Ginger has had a Better heamatological analysis which has been attributed to it's physiological , phamarcological properties and it's nutritional effects.