The effectiveness of forage and balanced concentrate feeding on the nutritional values and performance of buffaloes
2019
Tri Astuti(University of Mahaputra Muhammad Yamin, West Sumatra (Indonesia). Faculty of Agriculture) E-mail:adektuti@gmail.com | R.M. Sari(University of Mahaputra Muhammad Yamin, West Sumatra (Indonesia). Faculty of Agriculture) | U. Santoso(University of Bengkulu, Bengkulu, (Indonesia). Faculty of Agriculture. Department of Animal Science)
This study is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of forage and balanced concentrate in diet or nutritional contents and nutrient digestibilities of feed, feed consumption, an average daily gain, and feed efficiency in buffaloes. This study used a completely randomized design with 4 replicates. The diet treatments were: (R1), 100 percent native grass, (R2), 70 percent native grass + 30 percent concentrate. (R3), 60 percent native grass + 40 percent concentrate (R4) 50 percent native grass + 50 percent concentrate. The experimental results showed that the amount of concentrates, significantly affected (P LT 0.05) the contents of dry matter, organic matter, and crude fiber. However, the crude protein, crude fats, digestibilityies of dry matter and organic matter of the contents were not significantly affected P LT 0.05). It could be concluded that the addition of concentrated ration to buffaloes provides better productivity than field grass, with the best treatment being the R2.
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