Penambahan Urea atau DL-Metionina ke dalam Ransum Komplit Biomassa Ubi Jalar pada Kelinci
Abstract: Twenty male
cross-breed weanling rabbits were used to study the effect of urea or
DL-methionine addition in sweet potatoes biomass complete diets. Completely
randomized design was used in this experiment with four treatments and five
replications. The treatments consisted of A (comercial diet); B (sweet potatoes
biomass diet); BU (B + 0.5% urea) and BM (B + 0.5% DL-methionine). The dry
matter intake, average daily gain (AVG), feed conversion ratio, dry matter and
protein digestibility and nitrogen retention were measured in this experiment. The
result showed that the treatments did not significantly affect dry matter
intake and feed conversion ratio, digestibility of dry matter and protein, but
supplementation of DL-methionine significantly affected average daily gain and
nitrogen retention (P < 0.05). It was concluded that urea or DL-methionine
supplementation in sweet potatoes biomass diets could support good performance
of rabbits and it could be used as an alternative source of feed for rabbits.
Penulis: L Khotijah
Kode Jurnal: jppeternakandd060062
