THE PERFORMANCES OF GROWTH, BODY WEIGHT, AND MILK YIELD HOLSTEIN FRISIEN (FH) DAIRY COW IN DIFFERENT AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM
T Kusmayadi1, M Hasan2, U H Tanuwiria2, E Herawati1
1Faculty of Agriculture, Universitas Garut, Indonesia
2Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Universitas Padjajaran, Indonesia
Corespondence author: Email : tendy84[at]uniga.ac.id
Abstract
This research was about the performance of growth, body weight and milk production of Friesian Holland dairy cow in different agricural ecosystems inIndonesia.The objective of research was to study growth performance data, body weight and FH dairy cow milk production in Indonesia. The research was carried out in the three agroecosystems, Lebakjaya Village (rainfed rice field and dry land/AES DL-Rainfed), Karangpawitan District; Cintanagara village (irrigated rice field and dry lands/AES DL-IRF), Cigedug District; and Pamalayan village (dryland and tropical forest/AES DL-Forest), Bayongbong District.The method of the research was survey method, with the technique of determining farmers proportionally, and sampling farmers and their livestock by random sampling method. The data was processed using SPSS 22.0 for the simple descriptive analysis, and then tested statistically used T-Test.The results it was concluded that growth, body weight and milk yield of dairy cows were influenced by agroecosystems, in the dry land agroecosystems and located on or adjacent to forests (AES DL-Forest), productivity of dairy cows was better than irrigated and dry land with wide balanced rice agroecosystems (DL-IRF) and rainfed and dry land agroecosystems (AES DL-Rainfed).
Keywords: FH Dairy cow, body weight, milk yield, agroecosystem
Topic: Biology