PENGARUH PEMBERIAN FESES SAPI TERFERMENTASI TERHADAP NILAI EKONOMI AYAM KUB BETINA FASE PERTUMBUHAN SEBELUM PUBERTAS (The effect of feeding fermented cow feces in ration against the economic value of female KUB chicken in the growth phase before puberty)

Abstract

An alternative effort that can increase feed efficiency is the use of fermented fecal waste, which is relatively inexpensive to substitute for commercial rations in order to reduce production costs. This study aims to determine the effect of the use of fermented cow feces in the ration on the economic value of female KUB chickens in the growth phase before puberty.The material used is 64 female KUB chickens aged 8 weeks to 16 weeks. This study used a Completely Rendomized Design (RAL) with four treatments and four replicates with each repeat consisting of 4 Female KUB chickens. The treatments offered were: R0: basal ration 100%, R1: basal ration 90%+fermented beef feces10%, R2: basal ration 80%+fermented cow feces 20%, and R3: basal ration 70%+termented cow's feces30%. The parameters measured were business productivity, IOFC, economic efficiency (EE) and BEP. The results showed that empirically the addition of faeces treatment was able to reduce costs (R1, R2 and R3), reduce revenue and income (R2 and R3), improve EE, production BEP and price BEP, but was unable to improve R/C and IOFC. Research conclusions: 1) The addition of fermented cow feces to commercial feed has an effect on feed costs, revenue, income, economic efficiency and BEP; while for R/C and IOFC no effect; and 2) The optimal level of substitution of fermented cow feces for increasing the economic value of female KUB chickens in the growth phase is the ration containing 10% fermented cow feces. Suggestions for KUB chicken farmers can use fermented cow feces substitution as much as 10% because it can reduce total costs, EE, production BEP and BEP prices significantly; but at the same time being able to maintain revenue, revenue, R/C, and IOFC.