The effect of papaya sap supplementation within the ration toward the dry and organic matter digestion of New Zealand White male rabbit

Abstract

Yudatama R, Handayanta E, Subagyo YBP. 2012. The effect of papaya sap supplementation within the ration toward the dry and organic matter digestion of New Zealand White male rabbit. Biofarmasi 14: 45-50. This experiment intends to evaluate the effect of papaya (Carica papaya) sap supplementation with different level of dosage toward dry and organic matter digestion of male NZW Rabbits. It has done in the Hall of Breeding and Cultivation of Rabbit, Agriculture Department of Surakarta, which is located in Balekambang, Surakarta. It is held from April 28, until June 18, 2007. Used 16 male New Zealand White Rabbits, which are divided into four treatments and four repetitions, each repetition used one rabbit. This study used the Complete Randomized Design (CRD) with unequilibrated data. Ration given is peanut straw and BR2 concentrate produced by PT. Japfa Comfeed Indonesia. The treatment feed given is papaya (Carica papaya) supplementation toward the ration, each of them is ration without papaya sap supplementation as control (P0), ration with papaya sap of 0.2 g/kg body weight (P1), ration with papaya sap of 0.4 g/kg body weight (P2), and ration with papaya sap of 0.6 g/kg body weight. The research variable used is dry matter consumption, organic matter consumption, dry matter digestion, and organic matter digestion. From the research result, the data for dry matter consumption (gram/head/day) of P0, P1, P2, and P3 respectively are 52.91; 52.37; 56.51; 55.16. Meanwhile, for organic matter consumption (gram/head/day) for P0, P1, P2, and P3 are 35.94; 34.65; 38.67; 37.7. Next, for dry matter digestion (%) the data are 61.14; 59.03; 59.42; 66.17. Then, for organic matter digestion, the data respectively are 59.54; 51.89; 54.96; 61.48. Variance analysis showed that papaya (carica papaya) sap supplementation until 0.6 g/kg body weight dosage is unsignificantly different. It is concluded that the papaya sap supplementation until 0.6 g/kg body weight dosage could not increase both the consumption and the digestion of dry and organic matter of New Zealand White Male Rabbits.