Performa itik alabio jantan umur 1-10 minggu yang diberi daun beluntas, vitamin C dan E dalam pakan

Abstract

Alabio male ducks are potential as producer of meat. Many factors influence in ducks production, including feed quality. Feed supplementation such as antioxidant will improve the ducks performance. Beluntas leaf meal, vitamin C and vitamin E could be used as source of antioxidant. The objective of this study was to know the effect of feeding beluntas leaf meal, vitamin C and vitamin E on performances of Alabio male ducks. This study used 96 male Alabio ducks and were reared from one week up to 10 weeks of old. The diet treatments used were commercial feed as control diet (K), control diet + 0.5% beluntas leaf meal (KB), control diet + 0.5% + beluntas leaf meal 250 mg / kg vitamin C (KBC) and feed control + 0.5% beluntas leaf meal + 400 IU vitamin E (KBE). A randomized block design, with 4 treatments and 3 replication was used in this study. The parameters observe were feed consumption, final body weight, body weight gain and feed conversion. The results showed that feeding 0.5% beluntas leaf meal (KB), 0.5% beluntas leaf meal + 250 mg/kg vitamin C (KBC) and 0.5% beluntas leaf meal + 400 IU vitamin E (KBE) did not affect the feed consumption, final body weight, body weight gain and feed conversion. The conclusion of this research did not affect the performances of Alabio male ducks at 1-10 weeks of age.