Variety and Digestibility of Forages Fed to Sacrificial-goats: A Preliminary Study in Mataram City

The study evaluated the variety and digestibility of forages fed to sacrificial-goats in Mataram. The study was carried out by direct observation method. A total of 20 points vendors selling sacrificial goats were used as sampling locations. From all stall selling point, all types of forage as feed were collected. The collected feed samples were identified and tested for digestibility. The results showed that Turi (Sesbania glandiflora) leaves had the highest Dry Matter Digestibility (DMD), which was 65.54%, compared to the DMD of other forage samples, while the lowest DMD was obtained of Gayam (Inocarpus fagifer) leaves, which was 24.86% (P<0.05). As with the DMD value, the highest organic matter digestibility (OMD) was by Turi (61.08%) and the lowest OMD obtain by Gayam which had an OMD value of 11.85% (P<0.05). The OMD of Waru leaves (48.68%) was not different but does not show any difference of Ketapang (Terminalia catappa) leaves (44.73%). It was concluded that among the ten forages offered by vendor to sacrificial-goats; by order of their digestibility, Turi (Sesbania glandiflora), Waru, (Hibiscus tiliaceus), and Ketapang (Terminalia catappa) leaves produced the highest DMD and OMD

Ragam Bahan Untuk Pembuatan Pakan Khusus Yang Diberikan Kepada Pasangan Kerbau Sumbawa Karapan Sebelum Bertanding (Studi Di Kecamatan Empang Kabupaten Sumbawa): Variety Of Ingredients For Manufacturing Special Feeds Given To Couples Sumbawa Buffalo Racing Before The Competition (Study In Empang District, Sumbawa Regency)

A survey was conducted in Empang sub-district, which has many Sumbawa buffalo racing enthusiasts. Before the animals are competed, are they given special feed/herbs? What are their chances of winning? This is what the research will seek to answer, as there is no written information on this subject. The survey found that all farmers give special feed/herbs to their raced sumbawa buffaloes, but the ingredients/recipes differ, ranging from the most complete recipe consisting of 17 ingredients, the medium recipe consisting of 12 ingredients, and the minimalist recipe consisting of 9 ingredients.  All of them have won. The complete recipe won first place (43 pairs of buffalo), the medium recipe won second place (48 pairs of buffalo), and the minimalist recipe (29 pairs of buffalo) won third place.

Pelatihan Pengolahan Pakan Asal Limbah Pertanian di Desa Moyo Mekar Moyo Hilir Sumbawa

As an effort to improve the knowledge and skills of rural breeders, community service activities have been carried out with the topic "Training on Feed Processing from Agricultural Waste in Moyo Mekar Village of Moyo Hilir Sumbawa." This service activity was held on the grounds that breeders in Moyo Mekar Village often experience difficulties to meet the needs of their livestock for forage, especially during the dry season, so this sometimes has an unwanted negative impact, such as the occurrence of cases of death and disease in livestock as a result of the declining condition of the livestock. This is due to the ignorance of the breeders in their efforts to overcome the shortage of forage during the dry season. This community service activity has been carried out using three methods, namely lecture, written and demonstration methods. With the lecture method, it was conveyed about the understanding and explanation of how to preserve and treat agricultural waste. Through the written method, it is conveyed by giving brochures to the breeder members. Meanwhile, with the demonstration method, the breeders directly practice ways of preserving and treating agricultural waste. Based on the results of monitoring during the activity, the results of questions and answers and the enthusiasm of the participants, it was seen that the new breeders realized how important the role of nutrition was for livestock, the availability of applying preservation and feed processing technology, and it could also be seen that they had no difficulty in adopting the material provided, then Overall this activity can be said to be quite successful. Recognizing the limitations of the breeders in terms of preservation and processing of feed which is an alternative for providing feed in the dry season, it is suggested that this kind of activity should be continued so that the expected livestock production can be achieved.

Urea’s Effect on Dry Matter, Organic Matter, and Crude Protein Content of Ammoniated Corn Straw

Feed is an absolute necessity that must be guaranteed in the maintenance of ruminants but its availability is always a problem during the dry season so that a fresh forage is difficult to obtain and only agricultural waste in the form of straw is available. One of widely used by farmers, especially in Lombok region, is corn straw. This research aims to evaluate the nutritional content of corn straw that has been ammoniated using urea. This study used corn straw and urea for the ammoniation process with a complete randomized design (CRD) design consisting of 4 treatments and 4 replications, namely T1= corn straw without ammoniation (control), T2= corn straw ammoniated with a dose of 2% urea, T3= corn straw ammoniated with a dose of 4% urea and T4= corn straw ammoniated with a dose of 6% urea. The variables measured were dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM) and crude protein (CP). The results showed that urea used in the ammoniation process of corn straw showed a significant effect (P<0.05) on increasing the content of DM, OM and CP with results ranging from 21.02% - 23.98% for DM content, 88.13% - 91.07% for OM content and 13.53% - 23.81% for CP content. It was concluded that the best dose of urea for ammoniation of corn straw was treatment T4 with a dose of 6% urea with the results of the content of 23.98% DM; 89.94% OM and 23.81% CP, respectively

PELATIHAN DAN PENDAMPINGAN PENULISAN KARYA ILMIAH BAGI GURU IPA DI NUSA TENGGARA BARAT

Publikasi karya ilmiah merupakan salah satu tuntutan dalam pengembangan profesi tenaga pendidik.  Keterbatasan kemampuan maupun kendala teknis lainnya bagi guru dalam menulis artikel ilmiah berimplikasi pada pengembangan karier dan jenjang kepangkatannya. Tujuan kegiatan ini adalah meningkatkan pengetahuan dan keterampilan guru IPA dalam menulis hingga mengirim naskah ke jurnal tujuan. Peserta diberikan pelatihan dan pendampingan secara intensif mulai dari pelatihan kemampuan dasar menulis artikel ilmiah hingga bimbingan teknis untuk submit ke jurnal tujuan dan revisi naskah hingga terpublikasi. Kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat ini akan dilaksanakan dalam beberapa tahapan, yaitu 1) Koordinasi dengan semua pihak terkait; 2) Pelatihan tentang penulisan pada jurnal; 3) Pendampingan dalam penulisan dan pengiriman artikel secara online; 4) Focus group discussion pada beberapa masalah yang terjadi, solusi dan rencana tindak lanjutnya. Pada tahap ini juga dilakukan evaluasi kegiatan secara menyeluruh. Setelah mengikuti kegiatan ini, peserta memiliki pengetahuan tentang pembuatan karya, membuat pertimbangan dalam memilih jurnal tujuan, membuat draft artikel sesuai panduan jurnal yang dituju, memanfaatkan tools dan program untuk mendukung dan memudahkan penulisan, serta mengirimkan artikel secara online

Feeding Strategy for The Development of Buffalo Farming

Until recently, cattle meat is believed as a dominant source of red meat that fulfills the market demands of Indonesia’s consumers. Meat demands tend to increase in the future caused by the increase income of human beings. As a consequence, the population of cattle tends to decrease and their role as meat producer should be in part or fully overcome and substituted by other ruminant livestock. Buffalo is one of the native ruminant livestock breeds of Indonesia that nutritionally and physiologically is not so different from cattle. This animal may be suitable and affordable to enhance the meat production. However, the present progress of buffalo population is not as good as cattle. This may be to some extent, related to the governmental policy that never lists it for a long time, as a high priority program in livestock development. Beside this constraint, buffalo has some strength to be optimized by improving its genetic potentiality and environmental related aspects. This paper deals with the effort of improving the nutrition and feed availability of buffalo with special focus on the applied feed technology. In the future, this approach will hopefully accelerate the buffalo population rate.   Key words: Buffalo, feed technology, forage, red meat, milk, nutrition, livestock farmin

PENINGKATAN NILAI NUTRISI PAKAN SAPI BETINA INDUK MELALUI PEMANFAATAN LAMTORO DI KELOMPOK TANI TERNAK PADE GENEM KECAMATAN SEKARBELA KOTA MATARAM

Improving nutritional value of feed using Leucaena leucocephala is attainable for everyone as it could easily grow in agriculture land and often found as tree fences in farmers’ residential area. Leucaena leaves contain high valuable nutrition, which favored by the cattle and likewise the increase live weight cattle thoroughly. A community-service based program was carried out at farmer group of Pade Genem in Sekarbela district, Mataram. This program aimed to provide training for cattle farmers on how to feed cattle using leucaena, introducing the methods of reducing anti-nutritional factors that naturally producing by leucaena, as well as planting strategy for feeding and environmental greening. Participative approach was used in the education and training activities through counseling, discourse and illustration methods. Success of program is indicated by enthusiasm and involvement of participants, as well as implementation and adoptio

Produktivitas Kambing Perah Peranakan Ettawa (PE) pada Tingkat Kelompok Tani Ternak di Lombok Tengah (Studi Kasus Pada Kelompok Tani Ternak)

This study aims to determine the productivity of PE goats kept by Livestock Farmers Groups in Central Lombok Regency. This study used a survey method with the determination of sample villages based on the presence of PE goat Livestock Farmers Groups in KTT and PE goats as respondents were determined by census and taken as respondents. This research was carried out at two locations, namely the Livestock Farmers Group and the Animal Feed and Nutrition Laboratory, Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Unram. The variables measured were the amount and type of feed given, milk production, fat and milk protein content of each lactating PE goat, belonging to members of the Livestock Farming Group. The research data will be tabulated and analyzed using the Arithmatic Mean and Standard Deviation using the MS Excel 2007 spreadsheet, then discussed descriptively. The results of the study were 6 target summits with 49 active members and all of them were part time jobs with a population of 107 PE goats, consisting of 23 males and 84 females of various ages. And the composition of the forage consisted of 4 types of grass or around 26.67%, 4 types of leguminous or around 26.67% and 7 types of trees or around 46.67%, from the 107 PE goats, 16 males or about 66 of them obtained feed status. .67% was sufficient and 8 heads or around 33.33% were not sufficient and as many as 29 females or around 34.94% were sufficient and as many as 54 heads or around 65.06% the feed requirement was not fulfilled. The average milk production of 16 lactating PE goats belonging to members of the target summit was around 306.10 ± 221.96 ml/head/day, which was relatively low, with a fat content of 3.4037 ± 0.6579%, which was quite good, still meeting SNI milk quality standards ( 3.0%) and the Directorate General of Labor (≥ 2.8%), while the protein content of 3.7837 ± 0.5127% is quite high, still meeting SNI standards (2.8%) and the Directorate General of Labor (≥ 2.7%)