Cinnamon as Source of Cinnamaldehyde in Growing Thin Tail Sheep Diets : Performance and Nutrient Digestibility

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Harwanto, Harwanto, Yusiati, Lies Mira, Utomo, Ristianto
• التنسيق: Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: Sustainable Agricultural Development; Rural Management; Animal Production; Food technology; Husbandry; Livestock
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/274981/1/131-B%20898%20ID.pdf; https://repository.ugm.ac.id/274981/
• المؤسسة: Universitas Gadjah Mada

The objective of the study was to determine the effect of cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni Ness ex Bl.) as the source of cinnamaldehyde in the diet on performance and thin tail sheep nutrient digestibility. Nine thin tail sheep (22.25 ± 1.92 kg) were plotted in three groups. Each groups were given king grass:rice bran:soy bean meal (65:25:10) in the diet without cinnamaldehyde (control) and cinnamaldehyde addition level of 300 dan 600 mg/kg dry matter (DM) or equivalent to cinnamon powder as much as 22.5 and 45 g/kg DM. Nutrient composition in the diet contained of 62.19% total digestible nutrients, 43.55% dry matter, 12.98% crude protein, and 26.27% crude fiber. Sheep were maintained for eight weeks. Collection stage was done in the last of 7th week. Data were analyzed using one way ANOVA, the significancy of different were tested by orthogonal polynomial. The result showed that the cinnamaldehyde addition level of 600 mg/kg DM did not affect of dry matter digestibility and organic matter digestibility. However, cinnamaldehyde addition level of 300 and 600 mg/kg DM increased (P<0.05) thin tail sheep DM intake from 660.35 to 735.04, and 760.84 g/day, average daily gain from 67.86 to 94.03 and 111.31 g/day, crude fiber digestibility from 77.88 to 79.75 and 79.59%, and decreased feed conversion from 9.94 to 7.86 and 7.02. It can be concluded that the cinnamaldehyde addition level of 300 mg/kg DM or equivalent to cinnamon powder as much as 22.5 g/kg DM increased performance and thin tail sheep crude fiber digestibility.