Abstract
The success of animal husbandry is supported by good animal and environmental health management practices. This study examined the correlation between the sheep farmer’s characteristics and the animal and environmental health management practices. The data collected by direct interviews with 48 respondents in Batur Village, Banjarnegara. Indonesia. The aspects of animal (exercise, grooming, wool shearing, supplement feeding, and water drinking) and environmental (sheepfold sanitation, waste processing, and waste removal) health management practices were divided into three categories, namely low, medium, and high levels. The results showed that 83.3% of respondents were in the low-level following by medium (14.6%) and high (2.1%) levels of animal health management. Furthermore, on the environmental health management shows, 27.1% of respondents were in the low level, 60.4% in the medium level, and 12.5% in the high level. There was a significant relationship between farmers’ characteristics (informal education, livestock farming experience, and the number of sheep) and animal health management practice. A significant relationship was also shown between formal education, livestock purpose, livestock experience, and number of sheep by farmers toward environmental health management practice. It may conclude that the low and medium levels of animal and environmental health management practices were dominant in Batur Village.
Highlights
Batur Village is located in Batur District, Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia
This study aims to examine the relationship between the sheep farmers’ characteristics and the animal and environmental health management practices in Batur Village
The results of the study that has been carried out by exploring data from 48 sheep farmers in Batur Village which are observed in several analyzes, including farmer characteristics, practices in the animal and environmental health management, and the relationship between the farmers’ characteristics and both animal and environmental health management practices
Summary
Batur Village is located in Batur District, Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java Province, Indonesia. This area has a temperature of 14-20oC, humidity of 84-85%, and rainfall of 2,238 mm/year [1] This village relatively cold for a tropical area, the majority of the society creates horticultural lands and plantations. Batur sheep have been developed by the community in Batur District and its surroundings since 1974 and designated as one of the Indonesian local sheep breeds through the Decree of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Indonesia No 2916/Kpts/OT.140/6/2011 This breed is the result of a crossbreeding between the Thin Tailed sheep and Merino sheep. Both male and female Batur sheep are hornless and relatively calm temperament [2] This sheep is suitable for developing in areas with low temperature and high humidity environmental conditions such as in Batur Village, Banjarnegara Regency, Indonesia [3,4,5]
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