Month: November 2020

Improvement of Rumen Degradability to Low-quality Tropical Forage with the Addition of a Complete Supplement

Artikel pdf Abstract. The low productivity of beef cattle is primarily due to the low rumen degradability of forage ration. This study aims to determine the level of addition complete supplement in improving rumen degradability to low quality tropical forages. The study was conducted in vitro using beef cattle rumen fluid treated with 4 levels […]

The antioxidant characteristics of the liquid smoke of Cocoa shell (Theobroma cacao, L) in different water content variations

Artikel pdf Abstract. Agricultural and plantation wastes, especially cocoa plants, have not been widely used, although in some conditions they have potential as animal feed ingredients and raw materials for composting. So needs a program potential utilization of waste produced by the plant cocoa is cocoa shell waste such as being liquid smoke. Liquid smoke […]

Interaction effects of cattle feed supplement and concentrate on rumen fermentability and fiber fraction degradability in low-quality forage

Artikel pdf Abstract: The objective of this study was to examine the interaction effect of additions cattle feed supplement (CFS) with feed concentrate on rumen fermentability and fiber degradability of low-quality tropical forages. The forage used is Paspalum conjugatum contain 5.44% of crude protein, feed concentrate contains 7.52% of crude protein and the CFS is […]