| Summary: | The objective of the research was to identify the effect of fermented
complete feed on the quality of complete feed and performances of male
Bligon goats. The research was conducted for twelve weeks in the
housing of goat farmers at Purwomanunggal farmers� group, Panggang,
Gunungkidul district. Fifteen male Bligon goats aged at eight months old
and initial body weight of 12 to 15 kg, were randomly divided into three
treatments, each treatment was consisted of five male goats. The
treatments were: 1)Control feed (R0), 2)One week fermented complete
feed (R1), and 3) Two weeks fermented complete feed (R2). The variables
were consisted of quality of complete feed, feed intakes and nutrient
digestibility, average daily gain, feed conversion, feed cost per gain, and
income over feed cost. One way analysis of variance were used to
analyze the mean differences and continued with Duncan�s multiple range
test for significant differences. The result showed that two weeks
fermented complete feed had darker colour and stronger odors compared
to one week fermented complete feed. Both of one week and two weeks
fermented complete feed had soft textures, no fungi with the range of pH
was 4.5�5.0. The intakes of dry matter, organic matters, crude protein,
crude fibre, crude fat and total digestible nutrients were significantly
(P<0.05) affected by treatments, goat fed with control feed had higher
intakes compared to goats fed with one week and two weeks fermented
complete feed. The average of dry matter intake for R0,R1, and R2 were
81.18±22.30, 43.29±6.26,and 49.52±5.912 g/kg BB0.75, while crude protein
and total digestible nutrients intakes were 13.05±3.58,4.76±0.68,4.30±0.98
and 57.57±15.8, 36.22±5.23, 42.67±5.09 g/kg BB0.75, respectively. No
significant effect of feed treatments were found on the digestibility of acid
detergent fibre and neutral detergent fibre, average daily gain, feed
conversion, feed cost per gain and income over feed cost. It is concluded
that with the lower nutrient intakes, one week and two weeks fermented
complete feed can produce a similar growth of male Bligon goats.
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