| Summary: | The objectives of this experiment were to conserved the remaining
agricultural crops of sugarcane bagasse, improved digestibility and increased the
value of N so that sugarcane bagasse could be used as animal feed. The study was
divided into two stages: 1) sample preparation in the form of the addition of urea
and calcium hydroxide (Ca (OH 2) on sugarcane bagasse and cured for 21 days,
prepared in accordance with a completely randomized design factorial 3 x 3 with
the first factor was urea and the second was calcium hydroxide,. 2) test the quality
of sugarcane bagasse included proximate analysis, Van Soest fiber analysis and in
vitro digestibility test. Data were analysed by using analysis of variance,
differences between treatments followed by a futher test Duncan�s Multiple Range
Test will be used. This research was prepared on the level of the urea addition (on
dry matter basis) of 0%, 3% and 6% and calcium hydroxide 0%, 3% and 6% on
sugarcane bagasse with 3 replications.The addition of urea 0% were R1, 3%, R2,
R3 and 6% for calcium hydroxide is 0% C1, C2 3% and 6% for C3. The results
showed that variation of chemical composition (P<0.05), but there was no
interaction (P>0.05) between urea and calcium hydroxide. The content of neutral
detergent fiber (NDF) and acid detergent fiber (ADF) and the average dry matter
digestibility and organic matter in a row between 24.24 ± 1.20% to 39.86 ± 0.82%
and 24.88 ± 0.60% to 40.24 ± 0.92%. It can be concluded that the addition of 3%
urea and 6% calcium hydroxide to sugarcane bagasse are most optimal based on
crude protein content.
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