Feeding Value of Feeds Commonly Available in Bangkalan Regency for Madura Cows

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Madura cows; feeding regines; calf’s birth weight; days open

Abstract

An investigation on a farm has been done in Bangkalan Regency to investigate local feeds commonly offered for Madura cows, as well as their feeding value. Socah village was purposively selected in which a total of 30 cattle farmers were designated as location of this study. The observations being made were type of feeds offered, their nutrient content and feeding value as measured for late pregnant cows. Local feeds identified were used to formulate a ration of Madura cows in the stage of 7–8 months pregnancy (30 cows) and a comparation was made between the cows fed on field grass plus rice bran as control group (treatment A; 10 cows), and the other two treatments (B and C each of 10 cows) in which 1.0 kg and 2.5 kg of concentrates were used respectively. The results showed that local feeds commonly used by farmers were as follow: agricultural byproducts (rice straw, maize stover, groundnut peel, mungbean straw, and sweet potato leaves, cassava leaves), fresh forages (elephant grass, Indigofera, Sesbania, and Leucaena leaves), concentrates (rice bran, maize bran, tofu waste and soybean hulls). Cows that were given field grass supplemented with concentrate consisted of rice bran (40%), tofu waste (19%), maize bran (31%) and soybean hulls (10%) for 45 days before and after calving produced heavier calves than control (21.4, 24.3, 19.4 kg respectively). Shorter open days (81.6 and 71.6 days) were observed in cows given concentrate supplementation for treatments B and C than treatment A (107.3 days). It can be concluded that under better feeding management system in which concentrate feed was supplemented can result in heavier calves at birth and the cows showed oestrus earlier than the cows only received rice bran as supplement.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mashudi
AU  - Poespitasari Hazanah Ndaru
AU  - Wike Andre Septian
AU  - Aprilia Dwi Kartika
AU  - Kusmartono
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/04/18
TI  - Feeding Value of Feeds Commonly Available in Bangkalan Regency for Madura Cows
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Animal Industry (ICESAI 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 492
EP  - 498
SN  - 2468-5747
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-670-3_53
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-670-3_53
ID  - 2025
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