Identifikasi Produktivitas Induk Domba yang Digembalakan sebagai Dasar Kriteria Seleksi di Unit Pendidikan Penelitian dan Peternakan Jonggol Institut Pertanian Bogor (UP3J-IPB).
Abstract
Local sheep is one of the animal genetic resources which is potential to be developed in supporting national meat supply. Local sheep has some superiorities such as twinning birth, early mature age and non seasonally breeding. Nevertheless, instead of these superiority, some problem still occurred as lacking of lamb survivability rate, low carcass percentage and high variances both genotype and phenotype parameters. The objectives of this study were to find the relationship between ewe age and its productivity, and ewe body measurements and its milk yield on grazing system. This study was conducted in the Jonggol Animal Science Teaching and Research Unit (JASTRU), Singasari Village, Bogor District, from June up to November 2007. As many 100 lactating ewes, on 1 to 4 years of age, were used in this study. Sheep were reared on grazing system from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and housed at night. The results showed that ewe age highly significant affected the body weight after lambing (p<0,01), milk yield (p<0,01), total birth weight (p<0,01) and total weaning weight (P<0,01) but did not significant for litter size. Breast circle, udder base circle, and udder height showed strong relationship in predicting 3 to 5 year ewe milk yield (p<0,01). The most productive ewes was 3 to 4 year ewes group.
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- MT - Animal Science [1203]