| Summary: | Goats are very important for livestock farmers as a savings. One of the
obstacles that interfere the breeding business is a parasitic infection on
gastrointestinal tract. This disease caused obstruction of growth and often lead to
death, especially in young animals. This study was conducted to determine the
potential nutrition and effectiveness of various forages containing tannin as
antiparasitic in supporting performance female Bligon goats. Twenty female
Bligon goats were randomly divided into four treatment groups. Control group (K)
was offered only grass, T1 was offered a mixture of 50% grass and 50%
Gliricidia sepium (DM basis), T2 was offered a mixture of 50% grass and 50%
Calliandra calothyrsus (DM basis), and T3 was offered a mixture of 50% grass
and 50% Artocarpus heterophyllus (DM basis). The amount of feed dry matter as
much as 5% from the body weight. The results of in vitro studies on adult
Haemanchus contortus worms showed that the increased of concentration
forages had significant effect (P<0.05) on increased of the number of dead
worms. The highest worm mortality was occurred at supplementation with 50%
Artocarpus heterophyllus (T3). The results of in vivo studies showed that
supplementation with forages containing tannin could increased the intakes of dry
matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), crude fiber (CF), ether
extract (EE), total digestible nutrient (TDN) and digestibility of DM, OM and CP.
Goats which received supplementation with forages containing tannins had a
higher daily weight than controls (T1 = 19,04 g/day
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