PENGARUH PEMBERIAN JAMU TRADISIONAL TERHADAP KECERNAAN PAKAN PADA TERNAK DOMBA

Abstract

Herbal medicine has been traditionality administrated to ruminants thoghout east java. It is generally believed that administration of such a medicine would improve feed intake and general condition of animal health. Nevertheless, there is pancity in the literature dealing with mechanism, by which the herbal medicine influence apetite and health. This preliminary study aimed at evaluating the effect of herbal medicine (produced by PT. Air Mancur) administration towards diurnal its subsequence influence on feed digestibility and nitrogen balance. Six rams weighing om average 9.82 1,75 kg BB0.75 (approximately 10 month old) were panned individually in the wooden-slatted cage. Each animal was equipped with a rumen cannula. In the first period all animal were fed with a diet consisted of Cynodon plectostachyus, Brachiaria decumbens and Panicum maximum c.v. Petrie hay (DM to 2,5% BW), plus commercial concentrate (30 g/kg BW0,75). Following the cessation of period I, the animals were administered 2,82 g/kg BW0,75 from the recommended dose of herbal medicine per day for 20 concecutive days wherw all parameters measured in period I were repeated. The result indicates that the average of NH3 concentration, pH, dry matter digestibility, organic matter digestibility (in-vitro and in-sacco) was very significantly different (P<0,01). The usage of recommended 1,5 dose of herbal medicine per day tended to increased the feed digestibility (in-vitro and in-sacco)