Abstract
This research aimed to analyze fertility, survival rate and egg weight of Native chicken with Mung bean sprout and acidifier supplementation in feed. This research was conducted in 50 days, from July to August, 2019. This is an in vivo research which used 12 months old of Native chicken, consisted of 24 roosters with average body weight of 2.29 ± 0.23 kg and 96 hens with average body weight of 2.24 ± 0.25 kg. The roosters were choosen from minimum fertility category of 40%. The factorial design used feed formulation with 17% level of crude protein and the average of metabolic energy of 2804 kkal/kg, with 48 hours germination of Mung bean sprout and acidifer supplementation. The supplementation level of Mung bean sprout were 0% and 1.8%, and the supplementation level of acidifer were 0%; 0.6%; and 1.2%. The roosters and hens were then grouped into 24 groups of mating with 1 roster and 4 hens proportion, then fed by treatment feed in 15 days. The semen was collected from all roosters by using a teaser female method with artificial cloaca, and directly inseminated to all hens which were on the group. Each egg from the groups was collected everyday within 5 days, then put into an incubator and then repeated twice using the second incubator for 2 days after the first incubator operated. The data was collected and analyzed by ANOVA, and continued with Tukey test, if there was a significant impact. The result showed that there was no significant increase on fertility level, survival rate and egg weight along with the increased feed consumption and better conversion. It can be concluded that feed treatment did not gave a direct impact to this research parameters, but was likely implicated to the inseminated semen quality and increased the feed palatability. It is recommended to scale up the level of Mung bean sprout and acidifier supplement in feed to optimize and to control the non research parametric factors.
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