Perilaku Peternak dalam Pemeliharaan Itik Magelang Guna Menghasilkan Ternak yang Aman, Sehat dan Produktif di Desa Ngadirojo Kecamatan Secang, Kabupaten Magelang

Abstract

Duck breeding have a good prospect and provide a promising society protein demand as consumption food. Magelang Ducks is one of productive local poultry produces meats and eggs. Magelang Duck as a germ plasm basically haven’t had a proper attention either from society and government. These can be seen from its traditional farming system and considered as a side business. If this issues were still continuesly occurs, it was afraid that Magelang Duck as germ plasm could be extinct. This study was conducted to describe the farmers behaviour in Magelang Duck farming system in duck farming central Ngadirojo village, Secang subdistrict, Magelang district to provide a safe, healthy and productive livestock. The samples used were local farming purposively provided or purposive random sampling as many as 30 persons. The method used in this study was survey, interview and observation in the field. Data were analyzed by z-test. The results showed that farmers behaviour level on farming system were 23%, farmers behaviour level on providing and building nest were 11%, behaviour level on providing floor pads nest were 43%, behaviour level on feeding was 47%, behaviour level on concentrate addition in feed were 20%, behaviour level on vaccination were 17%, the livestock level infected by desease were 94%. The results showed that most of farmers had a low behaviour on Magelang Duck breeding.