Meat Quality of Female Post-Weaning Fat-Tailed Sheep with Docking and Level of Feeding Concentrate from Water, Fat and Protein Content

Djalal Rosyidi (Teknologi Hasil Ternak Fakultas Peternakan Universitas Brawijaya)

Jurnal Ilmu dan Teknologi Hasil Ternak
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2009)

  The objective of this experiment was to evaluate meat quality of female post-weaning fat-tailed sheep with docking and level of feeding concentrate from water, fat and protein content. The material used in this experiment was meat of 20 female post-weaning fat-tailed sheep from biceps femoris. Feeds given were elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) and concentrate “Gemuk A”. The sheep was house individually in a 0.75 x 1.0 m2 elevated house unit. The method was experiment with Nested Block Randomised Design, with treatmen of docking (D1) and non-docking (D0) and level of feeding concentrate (p), i.e. 1 percent (PO) and 3 percent (P2).The result showed that docking gave no significsntly difference (P>0.05) for water content, but for fat and proten content gave very significantly difference (P<0.01). Level feeding of concentrate gave no significantly difference (>0.05) for water content, but gave very significantly difference (P<0.01) for fat and protein content.In the average water content was 72.46; 72.77; 73.40 and 72.98 percent respectively, fat content 3.97; 5.76; 5.01 and 7.28 percent respectively and protein content 16.35; 17.75; 17.34 and 18.84 percent respectively.It could concluded that docking and level feeding of concentrate significantly increased fat and protein contents of meat of female post weaning fat-tailed sheep, but not significantly effect on water content. Docking and level of feeding concentrate at 3 percent of body weight should be considered to get good qualityy of female post weaning fat-tailed sheep from fat and protein content. Keywords: Meat Quality, Female Post-Weaning, Fat-Tailed Sheep, Docking