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The Productivity of Kejobong and Bligon Goats,

a Local Indonesian Goats Kept by Farmers

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  2 I. G. S. Budisatria , Panjono , A. Agus and H. M. J. Udo

  1 Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, 55281, Indonesia

  2 Animal Production Systems Group, Wageningen University, Netherlands

  This paper discusses the productivity of Kejobong and Bligon goatskept by farmers at traditional management. One farm research was conducted for 12 months at the two farmers group in Central Java and Yogyakarta Provinces. 70 farmers and their goats were monitored, including services per conception, gestation period, litter size, birth weight, postpartum mating, mortality, weaning weight, average daily gain, kidding intervals, kid crop, doe reproduction index and doe productivity. Service per conception, gestation period and postpartum mating of Kejobong goats was higher (p<0.01) than Bligon goats, while litter size did not significantly differ. Birth weight and pre-weaning mortality of Kejobong and Bligon goats was the same, while weaning weight and average daily gain were significantly higher (p<0.05) in Kejobong kids rather than Bligon kids. Kejobong goats had a potentially better performances in terms of growth, feed intake and feed efficiency compared to Bligon goats, however, poor management in terms of feed quality offered by the farmers make those potential was un-emerged, low reproductive performance of Kejobong does.

  Key Words: Kejobong and Bligon goats, Productivity, Farmers

  

INTRODUCTION

  Indonesia has various animals owning characteristic genetic properties and germ plasm, and they are considered as valuable asset for the development of animal kind. Those species has many comparative advantages than imported breeds, for example it has better hars climate adaptation than imported breed and they have better reproductive performances as a result of natural selection. It has high diversity of adaptive genetic characteristics (tolerant of high temperatures, resistant to disease vectors and challenges), yet these AnGR are most at risk of genetic erosion (Anderson and Centonze, 2007). Among various local domestic animals to breed, goat is found widely being kept by many people. Goat is well accepted by many people, but goat farming including its rearing and breeding management is still done as small scale farming in a traditional way (Budisatria et al., 2008). The way they kept goats are remains the same over the last decades, making its productivity are low (Budisatria, 2006; Budisatria et al., 2007). Two local breeds of goats kept by farmers are Kejobong and Bligon goats. The local goats Kejobong are widely found in Kejobong district of Purbalingga regency, it is originated from this place, it has a massive body as Kacang goats do, so there is a guess of a possibility that the two breeds might be related to each other. Bligon goats was a name given to breed resulted from cross mating of local Kacang goat with Etawah Cross, and blood profile of Bligon goats were 50% more of Kacang goats. The superiority of local breeds as national germ plasm has not been recognized yet, while its protection or conservation as well as its utilization were still on papers only. It is therefore, protecting, conserving, as well as developing and thinking of utilization of local animals germ plasm need to be supported by certain guidance that can protect the genetic potency of local breed and its family, developed domesticated breed as well as those being kept by subsystem way. This paper presented the productivity of Kejobong and Bligon goats, two local goats kept by farmers in Indonesia.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

  The research was conducted for 12 months at the two farmers group; Ngudidadi village, Kejobong sub district, Purbalingga district, Central Java and Purwo Manunggal farmer group, Panggang, Gunungkidul. In total 45 farmers in Ngudidadi and 30 farmers at Puromanunggal were selected and their goats were monitored over a period of 12 months. Ngudidadi farmers group kept Kejobong goats, while Purwo Manunggal farmer group kept Bligon goats. In total, 56 does; 87 pre-weaning kids at Ngudidadi and 75 does; 95 kids in Purwomanunggal, aged 2.0-2.5 years, were regularly monitored. The monitoring includes services per conception, gestation period, litter size, birth weight, postpartum mating, mortality, weaning weight, average daily gain, kidding intervals, kid crop, doe reproduction index and doe productivity. All members of a group were asked specific questions related to their animal condition and farmers characteristics.

  Goats’ productivity in terms of kid crop, doe reproduction index, and doe productivity over a period of one year were calculated using an equation described by Amir and Knipscheer (1989). Pre weaning kids were observed directly, it was consisted of birth and weaning weight, pre-weaning mortality, and average daily gain.

  Productivity was analysed using Independent T-test sample analysis to compare information between Kejobong and Bligon goats, while body sizes, birth weight, weaning weight and daily gain of goat were analysed using 2x2 factorial analysis with sex and breed as factor. The characteristics of the farmers was presented in percentages and analysed descriptively.

  Table 1 present the characteristics of Kejobong and Bligon farmers including the ownership and objectives of keeping goats. The characteristics of farmers, the role small ruminants play in the livelihood of the people has not changed so much as previous study by Budisatria (2006), small numbers of ownership with the adult goats were the major composition, and had quite high experiences of more than five years. The main difference was the land they have, Bligon farmers have much more land than those of Kejobong farmers. It was surprisingly and contradicted with the study of Budisatria (2006), that the main reason for keeping small ruminants for Bligon goats farmers is commercial purposes, although their function as a capital asset followed by the production of manure is given priority by some farmers and it was a main motivation for Kejobo ng goats’ farmers. Farmers, however have their own opinion on the commercial purposes. Bligon farmers realized that keeping goats is the only way to gain cash money, therefore they perceived that keeping goats could as a kind of commercial activity.

  RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Ownership and objective of keeping goats Tabel 1. Characteristics of Kejobong and Bligon goats farmers

  Parameter Kejobong Bligon Numbers of farmers

  40

  30 Farmers age (yars)

  51.4

  44.9 Goats ownership (head)

  4.1

  4.0 Experience on keeping animal (years)

  8.7

  13.0 Goats composition (head) : Pre-weaning (0-3 month)

  1.2

  0.5 Post weaning (3-6 month)

  0.3

  0.5 Young (6-12 month)

  0.6

  0.9 Adult ( more than 12 months)

  1.9

  2.1 Land ownership (ha):

  0.2

  1.1 Objectives (%): Saving

  85.7

  34.5 Manure

  0.0

  27.6 Commercial

  14.3

  37.9 Farming system (%): Feedlot

  0.0

  27.2 Breeding

  90.5

  72.8 Mixed

  9.5 Production system (%): Fully confinement 100.0 100.0 Grazing Mixed

  Doe productivity

  Table 2 present the productivity of Kejobong and Bligon goats kept by farmers. Service per conception, gestation period and postpartum mating of Kejobong goats was higher (P<0.01) than Bligon goats, while litter size did not significantly differ. On average, Kejobong goats need two times before becoming pregnant, while Bligon goats only need one mating before becoming pregnant. Moreover, postpartum mating of Bligon goats was around three weeks shorter than Kejobong goats. Kidding intervals of Bligon goats was one month shorter than those of Kejobong goats. In terms of productivity, Bligon goats had higher productivity (P<0.01) compared to Kejobong goats, except for doe productivity. The kidding intervals of Bligon goats was one month shorter than Kejobong goats, while kid crops and doe reproduction index of Bligon goats were 22% and 21% higher than those of Kejobong goats.

  Tabel 2. Productivity of Kejobong and Bligon does kept by farmers Parameter Kejobong Bligon Sig.

  Numbers of does

  56

  59 Service per conception (time) 1.7 ± 0.7 1.2 ± 0.4

  0.01 Gestation period (month) 5.1 ± 0.1 5.0 ± 0.1

  0.01 Litter size (head) 1.6 ± 0.6 1.7 ± 0.5

  0.28 Post partum mating (month) 3.8 ± 0.7 3.2 ± 0.4

  0.01 Kidding intervals (month) 9.4 ± 0.9 8.4 ± 0.5

  0.01 Kid crop (%) 185.0 ± 67.5 226.1 ± 70.6

  0.01 Doe reproduction index (head/year) 1.9 ± 0.7 2.3 ± 0.7

  0.01 Doe productivity (kg/head/year) 21.4 ± 7.6 20.1 ± 5.9

  0.30 Reproductive performance is one of the main determinants of productivity of small ruminants (Mellado et al., 2006). Female Bligon goats had a better reproductive performances than female Kejobong goats, therefore it has a higher percentages on kid crop and higher doe reproduction index. On average, kid crops and doe reproduction index of female Bligon goats was more than 20% higher than female Kejobong goats. Reproduction efficiency is determined by many different processes and these processes include age at first kidding, kidding interval, birth type and the litter sizes at birth and the weaning rate (Greyling, 2000), the ability to breed does at a given period that will fit a specific market demand, therefore, controlling reproduction of goats is necessary to group kidding over a limited period of time and also to facilitate nutrition adjustments in relation to the physiological stage and lactation needs of batches of animals (Fatet et al., 2011). The management system, which includes the nutritional requirement and rearing environment, can affect reproductive performance considerably (Song et al., 2006). Improved feeding significantly reduced the age at puberty of female kids (Chentouf et al., 2011). Litter size and gestation period resulted on this study, however is in line with the previous study of local goats in Morocco (Chentouf et al., 2011) and Mexico (Urdaneta et al., 2000).

  Pre-weaning growth

  Table 3 present the birthweight, weaning weight, average daily gain and mortality of Kejobong and Bligon kids kept by farmers. There was no significant differences on birth weight and pre-weaning mortality of Kejobong and Bligon goats, however, weaning weight and average daily gain were significantly higher (P<0.05) in Kejobong kids rather than Bligon kids. Sex did not had significant effect on the birthweight, weaning weight and average daily gain both in Kejobong and Bligon goats. Male Kejobong goats had 31% higher in ADG compared to male Bligon kids, while ADG of female Kejobong kids was 1.6 times higher than those of female Bligon kids.

  Tabel 3. Average of birth weight, weaning weight and daily gain of Kejobong and Bligon

  kids

  Kejobong Bligon Parameter Male Female Male Female ns

  Birthweight (kg) 2.2±0.06 2.1±0,06 2.2 ± 0.23 2.1 ± 0.19

  a a b b

  Weaning weight (kg) 11.4±0.31 12.0±0.98 8.3 ± 1.32 7.8 ± 1.23

   a a b b

  ADG (g/head/day) 99.5±3.17 107.0±9.78 75.7 ± 20.92 64.5±18.13 Pre-weaning mortality

  7.3

  6.7

  ns

  (%)

  a,b Different superscript at the same rows denote significant differences (P<0.05).

  Poor performances of female Kejobong goats was not so in their kids. Kejobong kids had a better pre-weaning performance than Bligon kids in terms of weaning weights and average daily gain. Less litter size and high pre-weaning mortality of Kejobong goats might be affect the growth of pre-weaning kids. Marai et al. (2002) found that the productivity of goats born as singles was higher than those of twin and multiple births. The less litter sizes and high mortality rate, causing low numbers of still birth kids at pre-weaning, less competitiveness between kids for milking, therefore kids had opportunity to maximise their growth during pre- weaning ages, so average daily gain and weaning weight was also high.

  Overall, Bligon goats’ farmers seem to manage their small ruminants better than Kejobong goats’ farmers. Kejobong goats farmers offered cassava leaves as main feed for their goats combined with native grass, while Bligon goats farmers offered variuos type of local forages which can be easily found in their surroundings, since most of them are living in the forest side. Budisatria et al. (2010) found that abundant tree leaves are available surrounding the farmers, primarily farmers who live close to forest areas, and often they integrate their annual crops with legume trees, which function as a fence and provide feed for small ruminants. It is well recognized that the nutritional status of animals influences their reproductive performance (Lassoued et al., 2004; Melaku et al., 2004), nutritional strategies can also modulate the oestrous cycle and affect reproductive performances (Fatet et al., 2011).

  It is concluded that Kejobong and Bligon goats, two local Indonesian goat breed had good productivity. Kejobong goats had potentially good performances in terms of growth, feed intake, feed efficiency, and its body sizes, however, poor management done by farmers i.e. poor ability on detecting the heat, less various and poor quality of feed offered to the goats making those potential could not be explored and the performance remain the same as represented by poor reproductive performances, long postpartum mating and kidding intervals, low kid crop and doe reproduction index.