Pelatihan Penyusunan Ransum Ruminansia dengan Metode Sederhana di Kelompok Tani Ternak Jaya Makmur Desa Sidamulih Kecamatan Sidamulih Kabupaten Pangandaran

Abstract

Animal Feeding is one of the main factors in livestock production because it consumes 60-70% of production costs. Providing the best ration and selecting the right feed ingredients are among the capabilities that must be mastered by farmers. These capabilities are expected to be able to make a more efficient livestock production costs. Based on these, it was necessary to have a program than can be a tool of transferring the information that related to the skills of formulating the ration to the farmers. Jaya Makmur Livestock Farmers Group at Sidamulih Pangandaran is a ruminant farmers group that has technical difficulties in farming, especially the problem of animal feeding. Feed Formulation training was carried out with the hope of being able to help farmers solve their problem. This training was offline with strict application of health protocols. This training was carried out well because of the high enthusiasm of the participants. Furthermore, after participating in this training, the participants understood the difference between feed ingredients and rations, types of feed ingredients, dry matter needs for animal base on body weight, dry matter content of feed, and how to formulate good ruminant rations.