Nutrient Intake and Performance of Dairy Cattle in Two Different Farming System on Local Farm Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia

NUTRIENT INTAKE AND PERFORMANCE OF DAIRY
CATTLE IN TWO DIFFERENT FARMING SYSTEM
ON LOCAL FARM KUDAT, SABAH, MALAYSIA

DAYANG SITI HANIZAH BINTI DATU ABDUL KADIR

DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION AND FEED TECHNOLOGY
FACULTY OF ANIMAL SCIENCE
BOGOR AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
BOGOR
2014

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I hereby declare that the thesis entitled Nutrient Intake and Performance of
Dairy Cattle in Two Different Farming System on Local Farm Kudat, Sabah,
Malaysia is true of my work under the guidance of the supervising committee and
has not been submitted in any form to any college. Sources of information derived
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Bogor, June 2014
Dayang Siti Hanizah D.A.K.
NIM D24098003

ABSTRACT
DAYANG SITI HANIZAH. Nutrient Intake and Performance of Dairy Cattle in
Two Different Farming System on Local Farm Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia.
Supervised by IDAT GALIH PERMANA and DESPAL.
The objective of this research was to compare the two different farming
systems on nutrient intake and performance of dairy cattle in local farm Kudat,
Sabah, Malaysia. In the local farm Kudat, Sabah, there are two methods farming
systems of dairy cattle, intensive system and semi-intensive system. The research
was done 2 months, on September 2012 and July 2013. The procedure was
conducted by surveys and interviews and the data were analyzed by T-test. The
results showed daily dry matter intake on intensive system was higher than on
semi-intensive system were 15.87 and 10.16 kg DM-1head-1day-1respectively. The
average milk production on intensive and semi-intensive system showed
significant differences, were 19.72 and 18.14 l day-1 respectively, (P