Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXIV, Issue 2
Written by Sony Arthur Ely MONINGKEY, Ronny Agustinus Victor TUTUROONG, Ingriet Deybie Rinny LUMENTA
This study aims to obtain the best ration using corn cane in complete feed for rabbit production performance in terms of feed consumption, weight gain and feed conversion. it used 30 male rabbits of the New Zealand White strain in the range of 435-1.037 g were used. The ration consists of a mixture of corn sugarcane and other feed ingredients, such as corn, coconut meal, pollard, bran, sugar drops, and minerals purchased from animal feed stores. The formulated feed ingredients have a complete feed without using grass. The treatments carried out were corn cane in complete feed in the form of pellets as follows: R0 = feed without corn cane, R1 = feed with 10% corn cane, R2 = feed with 20% corn cane, R3 = feed with 30% corn cane, and R4 = feed with 40% corn cane. Results showed that the highest feed consumption occurred in treatment R3, 72.81 g/head/day. The highest weight increment was observed in treatment R3, 23.24 g/head/day. However, treatment R3 gave the lowest food conversion. It indicates that this treatment is more efficient feed to use. This study also concluded that the use of 30% corn cane gave the best performance.
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