Implementation of health management of a beef cattle feed on the collective cage based smallholder farming in Lombok Island

Abstract

Feed is a very important factor in the golden triangle of animal husbandry business. Provision of adequate amounts of feed of a quality that meets the nutritional needs standards continuously, especially in the dry season is a problem that is often faced by beef cattle farmers on smallholder farming. For this reason, research has been carried out to determine the level of implementation of health management of beef cattle feeds on smallholders farming based on collective cages on the Lombok Island in December 2016 to March 2017 using survey methods. Data collection was carried out by interview using a list of questions arranged on an ordinal scale Likert. The number of respondents interviewed was 185farmers determined based on the number of collective cages on the Lombok Island. Data is processed and analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the level of health management implementation of beef cattle feeds on smallholders farming based on collective cages on Lombok Island was at an average score of 3.80. Thus, it can be concluded that the level of implementation of health management of beef cattle feed on smallholders farming on the Lombok Island with enough to good value.