Blood Metabolite Statues of Local Sheep Fed With Indigofera sp.

Abstract

Blood metabolite statues represent blood nutrients which will be metabolized by the cell. Low nutrient statues of local sheep fed with sole grass caused low performance. The aim of this experiment was to evaluate blood metabolite statues of growing male local sheep through improvement of ration containing Indigofera sp. Eight local sheep consisted of four UP3-jonggol and four garut growing sheep, were used in this experiment for three months. The rations were pellet concentrate containing 30% of Indigofera sp with 15% crude protein (CP) and 73.80% total digestible nutrient (TDN). The animals were reared in individual cages and given water and feed ad libitum. At the end of the experiment, blood was drained and collected from jugular vein using 5 ml spoit. The blood were analysed for the concentrations of plasma glucose, urea and total cholesterol using diagnostic KIT Merck Dya-Cys following laboratory standard procedure. The design of this experiment using simple T-test, the mean data was compared for all parameters. Result showed that plasma glucose concentration was not significance (77.95 vs 85.89 mg%) among the local sheep, while concentrations of blood urea-N (BUN) and plasma cholesterol in jonggol sheep (73.31 mg% and 77.18 mg%) were significant higher than in garut sheep (55.99 mg% and 58.97 mg%). It was concluded that jonggol sheep have higher plasma cholesterol and BUN compared to the garut sheep which fed by 30% Indigofera sp. in the ration.