Study on Complete Feed Fermentation of Agricultural By-product on Performance of Etawah Goat

Abstract

Complete feed is nutritious feed that exclusively given to ful ll basic living need and production. A study was conducted to nd high quality complete feed with highly digestible can increase animal production. Latin square randomized design was used in the study with 4 treatments and 4 periods upon Etawah goat. The treatments given were as follow: R0 = fresh Elephant grass + commercial concentrate; R1 = fermented rice straw + fermented pod cacao; R2 = fermented rice straw + fermented rice bran; R3 = fermented rice straw + fermented sago. Daily weight gain, nutrition intake and nutrition digestibility were determined. The study indicated that there was no signi cant different result among the treatments on daily weight gain, crude protein and ber intake as well as dry matter, crude protein, ber and ash digestibility. However, dry matter intake showed highly signi cant different (P<0.01) among treatments, and ash intake result was signi cantly different (P<0.05). It was found that fermented rice straw can improve palatability as well as digestibility. It is concluded that fermented rice straw was able to substitute fresh forage as a basic diet. Fermented complete feed based on agricultural by product (pod cacao, rice bran and sago) combined with fermented rice straw has no signi cant different on digestibility and palatibility.