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Research Paper | Agricultural | Indonesia | Volume 7 Issue 7, July 2018 | Popularity: 6.7 / 10
Effects of Nutritional Improvement of Pre-Mating Etawah-Crossbreed Goat on Feed Intake, Feed Digestibility and Productivity
Suhartini, Rusdi, Damry, Marsetyo
Abstract: One approach that could be applied to improve goat productivity is the improvement of nutritional status of goat. Gliciridia forage as a protein supplement was fed to etawah crossbreed goat, during premating period to the gestation period. A total of 60 goats were placed in individual cages and refer to the Completely Randomized Design within factorial pattern. The first factor was parity; once birth (PS1), twice birth (PS2) and third birth (PS3), while the second factor was type of the diets; maize forage only (MF) and maize forage with the addition of gliciridia forage (GF) on the maize based diets in 20 replicates. The results indicated that parity and diet type independently gave a significant effect (P 0.05) between parity status with supplemental feeding of gliciridia on the dry matter and organic matter digestibility, but there was interaction to litter birth weight. Multiparous goat had higher the number of conception rate, twin-litter and litter size with lower the rate of embryo mortality. It was concluded that nutritional improvement in general could improve feed intake and feed digestibility and productivity of etawah-crossbreed goat.
Keywords: Productivity, gliricidia, parity, litter size, conception
Edition: Volume 7 Issue 7, July 2018
Pages: 452 - 456
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.21275/ART20183802
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