Feed Digestibility and Feeding Behaviour of Sheep Fed Gracilaria Sp. and Chromium Organic Supplementation

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10.2991/absr.k.220401.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Consumption; Digestibility; Gracilaria sp.; Local male sheep; Organic chrom; Rumination duration; Rumination frequency

Abstract

Bioactive compound in Gracilaria sp and organic chromium supplementation could improve feed digestibility through methanogen inhibition, increase carbohydrat metabolism effectiveness and feeding behaviour of sheep. The research conducted for 90 days using 18 heads of male local sheep and 3 heads as replacements stock, 7 months. The research was arrange using CRD (Completely Randomized Design), treatment consisted of: R0: 45% forage (42% native forage and 3% indigofera leaf meal) + 55% consentrate, R1: R0 + 3.6% Gracilaria sp. meal, R2: R1 + 0.3 ppm Organic Cr. Data were analyzed by anova and continued with Orthogonal Polynomial test. The result showed that combination of 3.6% Gracilaria sp. meal and 0.3 ppm organic Cr (R2) were increasing crude fiber consumption (P<0.05) and decreasing duration of rumination (P<0.05) but no significant effect on dry matter consumption, organic matter consumption, crude fiber digestibility, crude protein digestibility and rumination frequency. Gracilaria sp. supplementation tend to increase crude fiber consumption but it does not decrease rumination duration compare with the control. The research could be concluded that supplementation of Gracilaria sp. meal increasing crude fiber consumption without disturb duration rumination.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Munasik Munasik
AU  - Caribu Hadi Prayitno
AU  - Titin Widiyastuti
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/11
TI  - Feed Digestibility and Feeding Behaviour of Sheep Fed Gracilaria Sp. and Chromium Organic Supplementation
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Seminar of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science (ISANFS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 112
EP  - 117
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/absr.k.220401.024
DO  - 10.2991/absr.k.220401.024
ID  - Munasik2022
ER  -