Productivity and Intestinal Profile of Boilers fed with Fermented Dragon Fruit Ration

Abstract

The objective of this research was to determine the ration containing dragon fruit peel meal fermentation for productivity and intestinal profiles of broiler as been implemented for 4 weeks. The study design used is completely randomized design (CRD) where used with 3 treatment s and 5 replications of each has 10 birds. A number of 150 of one weeks age broiler were used in this experiment. The treatments were R0= control diet without dragon fruit peel meal fermentation, R1= diet with 5% fermentation dragon fruit peel meal; RD2= diet with 7% fermentation dragon fruit peel meal. The variables studied were: feed consumption, feed conversion, final body weight, body weight gain, intestinal profile. The results of this study indicate that feed consumption, feed conversion, weight gain, carcass weight, carcass percentage, intestinal profile were not significant (P> 0.05) effect after treatments of R0, R1, R2 but feed conversion ratio (FCR) and final body weight for R2 treatment has a significant effect (P0 <0.05). It can be concluded that the use of 3% -7% fermented dragon fruit peel meal on the ration did not a significant effect on broiler productivity and intestinal profile but the treatment with 7% fermented dragon fruit skin flour was significantly different to the final body weight and FCR.