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.

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

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

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

Pelatihan Pembuatan Permen Jilat Sapi Sebagai Pakan Suplemen Pada Kelompok Pemuda Tani Ternak Maju Bersama Di Desa Penyaring Kecamatan Moyo Kabupaten Sumbawa

The partner involved in community service activities is the Maju Bersama Livestock Farmer Youth Group in Desa Penyaring Kecamatan Moyo Utara Kabupaten Sumbawa. The problems faced are that farmers are very dependent on the availability of forage feed but its availability is limited during the dry season and the lack of knowledge of farmers regarding the adequacy of feed nutrition to the needs of livestock and the lack of innovation of farmers to utilize or process local feed ingredients and agricultural waste that can be made as alternative feed and feed supplements. The purpose of this activity is to help farmers to increase cattle productivity by utilizing local feed ingredients from available agricultural waste and processed in the form of supplementary feed is "Permen Jilat Sapi". The activity method includes counseling on making cow lick candy and direct training for farmers. The results of the activity were that the cow lick candy produced was classified as good with a firm texture and not soft and fragrant with the distinctive smell of molasses and corn. It was concluded that overall, the farmers' understanding of Permen Jilat Sapi after the training ranged from 80%-90%. This can be used as an indication that the activity has been successful and received a good response from farmers and as many as 75% of participants are willing to apply this feed supplement for their livestock.Mitra yang dilibatkan pada kegiatan pengabdian kepada masyarakat adalah Kelompok Pemuda Tani Ternak Maju Bersama di Desa Penyaring Kecamatan Moyo Utara Kabupaten Sumbawa. Permasalahan yang dihadapi adalah peternak sangat tergantung dengan ketersediaan pakan hijauan namun ketersediaannya terbatas saat musim kemarau dan kurangnya pengetahuan peternak mengenai kecukupan nutrisi pakan terhadap kebutuhan ternak serta kurangnya inovasi peternak untuk memanfaatkan atau mengolah bahan-bahan pakan lokal dan limbah pertanian yang dapat dibuat sebagai pakan alternatif maupun pakan suplemen. Tujuan kegiatan ini adalah membantu peternak untuk meningkatkan produktivitas sapi dengan memanfaatkan bahan–bahan pakan lokal asal limbah pertanian yang tersedia dan diolah dalam bentuk pakan suplemen berupa “Permen Jilat Sapi”. Metode kegiatan meliputi penyuluhan tentang pembuatan permen jilat sapi dan pelatihan langsung pembuatan kepada peternak. Hasil kegiatan adalah permen jilat sapi yang dihasilkan tergolong bagus dengan tekstur keras dan tidak lunak serta beraroma wangi dengan bau khas molasses dan jagung. Disimpulkan bahwa secara keseluruhan, pemahaman peternak terhadap Permen Jilat Sapi setelah dilaksanakan pelatihan bekisar 80%-90%. Hal ini dapat digunakan sebagai indikasi bahwa kegiatan telah berhasil dan mendapat respon yang baik dari peternak dan sebanyak 70% peserta bersedia menerapkan pakan suplemen ini untuk ternaknya

Pengenalan Beberapa Jenis Rumput dan Teknik Budidayanya di Kelompok Ternak Tunas Karya II Desa Teruwai

Pengenalan jenis rumput unggul dan tata cara budidayanya telah dilaksanakan dikelompok ternak Tunas Karya Desa Teruwai Kecamatan Pujut Kabupaten Lombok Tengah bertujuan untuk memeberikan pengetahuan tentang pengenalan ciri-ciri rumput unggul yang memeliki produsi tinggi dan mengandung nilai nutrisi yang dapat memenuhi kebutuhan ternak ruminansia seperti kambing, domba, sapi dan kerbau yang dipelihara oleh masyarakat  baik secara individual maupun secara berkelompok. Kegiatan ini akan dilaksanakan melalui dua tahap yaitu; tahap pertama adalah pemberian materi tentang pengenalan beberapa jenis rumput unggul dan ciri-cirinya yang kemudian dilanjutkan dengan materi teknik budidaya rumput unggul agar peternak dapat memilih jenis rumput yang akan mereka kembangkan sedangkan tahap kedua akan dilaksanakan pelatihan budidaya langsung pada lahan yang dimiliki oleh kelompok ternak Tunas Karya serata sekaligus akan dijadikan sebagai kebun bibit rumput sehingga para peternak dapat mengambil bibit dan menanamnya pada lahan-lahan yang bertofografi miring atau dilahan perkebunan seperti dibawah tanaman kelapa dan sebagainya. Dari hasil kegiatan ini para peternak mampu membedakan beberapa jenis rumput unggul dan tata cara penanamannya serta bagaimana cara pemeliharaannya yang pada akhirnya para peternak mampu menyedikan hijaun pakan secara berkesinambungan sehingga tidak perlu mencari rumput sampai keluar desa temp;at tinggal mereka