Effects of Traditional Medicine on F at-Tailed Sheep's Performance
Soebarinoto Soebarinoto(1*), T.Y. Astuti(2), Hermanto Hermanto(3), Marjuki Marjuki(4)
(1) Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Brawijaya, Malang
(2) Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Sudirman, Purwukerto.
(3) Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Brawijaya, Malang
(4) Faculty of Animal Husbandry, University of Brawijaya, Malang
(*) Corresponding Author
Abstract
Traditional medicine for livestock produced by PT. Air Mancur which is composed of Languatix rhizoma (25%), Carica fulium (20%), Sanluli lignum (10%), Andrographidis herba (10%), Sulfitr crudum (10%) and other ingredients (25%) was offered to fat-tailed sheep. Fifteen sheep were divided into three groups and were put in the individual metabolic cages. Each group was treated with 5 treatments, i.e. (A) without the medicine, (B) given one sachet of the medicine (2.14 g/kg BW0-75/d) every day, (C) given one sachet of tlle medicine within three days, (D) given 1.5 sachets of the medicine (3.21 g/kg BW°~75/d) every day, (E) given 1.5 sachets of the medicine within three days.
The sheep were fed on basal diets of Guinea grass (Panicum maximum) and African star grass (Cynodon plecrostachyus) mixed-hay ad-libitum and concentrate (l % of body weight) twice a day. There was an interaction effect between level and
frequency of offering the medicine on daily weight gain (P<0.0l). There was no significant difference of feed consumption between treatments (P>0.05). However, there was significantly effect of the medicine on feed digestibility (P<0.0l). Nitrogen retention was not affected (P>0.05), NH3 concentration and microbial protein synthesis were increased (P<0.01) by offering the medicine. lt was
concluded that traditional medicine can be considered as defaunating agent to improve feed efficiency.
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