Use of Ceremende as a Chicken Feed Supplement
Ceremende contains proteins up to 64%.
Muhammad Sulthoni Ashari is the phenomenon of the price of broiler chickens often coming down as reported by . While the chicken feed price is increasing. UB faculty students are sympathetic to the chicken farmers who still survive their efforts. "Whereas feed costs reach 70% of the cost of production. The price of feed rises, but I saw in the middle of 2018 chicken prices dropped," he said.
He finds insects behind a pile of chicken and that dries. The people of Malang are called Insects Ceremende. It looks like a roaches. However, both are different. Ceremende is a genus of Blaptica. His scientific name is Blaptica dubia. As for the roaches of Blatella. Ceremende contains higher protein than fish flour. At the end of 2018, he and his colleague made a feed formula made by Ceremende.
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Save Rp1, 8 million in Chicken feeds
Sulthoni and colleagues, Ajid Alfaruki, Elvi Indah Saputri, Saadatin Nurul Jannah make ceremende flour as a substitute for fish meal. They separate the insects from the dirt. Then dry it in the sun at 07.00-12.00. Sulthon dries the insect at 75. The drying process takes one hour to dry ceremende.Muhammad Sulthoni Ashari and colleagues' chicken feed contains 10% ceremende flour.
"If the sunlight is already blazing when drying, the process of drying can be faster," he said. They are ready to grind dried ceremende until smooth into flour. Sulthon uses the flour as chicken feed instead of fish meal. They hope that chicken farmers benefit more after replacing fish meal with ceremende flour. The price of fish meal with 60% protein content of Rp8,000-Rp10,000 per kg.
The price of flour Ceremende 64% protein rate is only Rp. 3,000 - Rp. 5,000 per kilogram. Sulthoni adds a variety of rice bran, corn, soybean meal, and calcium carbonate (CaCo3). "From 100% of the total feed, flour content is about 10%," said the man born December 24, 1996. They tested the feed at 100 broiler chickens. The results of feed contains superior and efficient ceremende.
Sulthoni said, in a cycle of breeder production that maintains 100 chickens can save Rp. 1.8 million. In addition, the rate of chicken fat that consumes Ceremende feed is very minimal. "Seen once on the chicken liver is clean from fat plus the density of meat," said the man from Jember, East Java. While in terms of weight is relatively the same as chicken consuming fish flour.
According to lecturers of Sulthoni, Joko Prasetyo, STP, MSi, prospects of ceremende as livestock feed is quite good. During this time the source of poultry proteins in artificial feeds comes from fish flour which is expensive. Ceremende are high-protein and inexpensive. "Moreover, it can be self-conceived by chicken farmers," said the Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Brawijaya University.
The poultry research team made Ceremende. From the left: Muhammad Sulthoni Ashari, Saadatin Nurul Jannah, Elvi Indah Saputri, and Ajid Alfaruki.
Joko Prasetyo hopes that the research is able to help the chicken farmers to increase their income by saving the cost of feed. In addition, he hopes that more and more parties can be entrepreneurial with the invention of Ceremende as feed. "In addition to feed chicken, Ceremende also has the opportunity to feed catfish and birds," he said. The often overlooked insects have the opportunity to be a new endeavor that will continue to evolve with the expensive cost of feed.
