<![CDATA[Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a plant that grows in tropical regions. Indonesias cocoa plants themselves are spread mostly in some islands, including the entire territory of Indonesia on the island of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua. Cocoa fruit leather is a potentially plantation waste as livestock feed. The content of nutrients in the skin of the fruit of the cocoa is said to be high-quality feed materials, so that waste utilization of plantation can save you the cost of feed consumption. The purpose of this research is to know the effect of granting fruit skins of cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) in the ration of broiler chicken growth. This research was conducted in May and June 2014, kelurahan bandar buat, kecamatan lubuk kilangan padang. Make the bottom of the wine town of Padang. Research using Randomized Complete Design (RAL), which consists of 6 treatments and four replicates. The treatment given is A Control Treatment (feeding 311), Treatment of B, by adding the flour cocoa 5% fruit peels, fruit skin Treatment C flour cocoa 10%, Treatment D flour cocoa fruit skin 15%, Treatment E flour cocoa fruit skin 20%, the treatment F flour cocoa 25% fruit leather. Data analysis with a variety of prints and continued with test BNT on α level of 5%. Research results showed issuing 5% cocoa fruit skin provides the best results against chicken broiler weight whereas the consumption of rations on the awarding of over 10% can chicken broiler weight loss due to the high content of crude fiber so that nutrients are present in the feed could not be digested by a chicken. Can be inferred grant of 5% cocoa fruit leather on a feed, the feed cost saving more than the giving of 10%.]]>
