Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXV, Issue 1
Written by Tuti WIDJASTUTI, Dani GARNIDA, Endang SUJANA
Nature chicken is Indonesian local chickens that widely maintained and are very popular in community, because of their distinctive taste and flavour. Expired bread is a food factory waste that has the potential to be used as a feed ingredient for corn substitute rations, because it contains high gross energy and crude protein. The objective of this research was knowing the optimal dosage level of expired bread meal on nature chicken performance. The completely randomized design-based research used 100 one week old nature chicks, with five treatments and four replications. The ration treatments used were of R1( ration with 10% Expired Bread Meal), R2 (ration with 15% Expired Bread Meal), R3 (ration with 20% Expired Bread Meal), R4 (ration with 25% Expired Bread Meal) and R5 (ration with 30% Expired Bread Meal. Parameters measured were feed consumption, final body weight, feed conversion, carcass, giblet and inedible organs. The result can be concluded that ration with 25% expired bread meal gave the optimum performance, therefore it can be used as alternative on nature chicken.
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