Electronic Theses and Dissertation

This research were studied about performances local bulls fed that it had been given pod cocoa fermentation and baggase. it had been done in the village cot teube gandapura bireuen district of aceh province on the date of october 6, 2015, until january 3, 2016. the purpose of this study was to determine the performance of local bull given fermented feed bagasse and pod cocoa. this study used 12 local bulls aged 2-2.5 years, the study lasted for 90 days. each treatment consists of the carrying out of a ( control without bagasse and pod cocoa fermentation), treatment b (rations with the addition of fermented pod cocoa 25%), treatment c (rations with addition of bagasse fermentation 25%), and treatment of d ( feed rations combination of bagasse fermentation 12.5% + 12.5% fermented pod cocoa). this study used a randomized block design (rbd). the research data were analyzed using analysis of variance (anova) each treatment consists of three replications. parameters measured were: average daily gain, feed cosumption, and feed conversion. the results showed that no significant differences (p> 0.05) on average daily gain, feed cosumption, and feed conversion. eventhought no significat differences between treatment, the result of this research showed that the treatments trend to give positive effect to average daily gain. keywords: local bulls, feed fermentation, pod cocoa, bagasse,