Pengaruh Penggunaan Limbah Penyulingan Sereh Wangi (Cymbopogon nardus) terhadap Suhu, pH Litter dan Performa Ayam Broiler

Abstract Rearing a chicken broiler in a litter system cage use litter material. The requirement of a good litter material were should have high water absorption, low water content, and nontoxic. Using litter material can affect of performance the broiler. The study aimed to know the effect of lemongrass (C. nardus) distillation waste as litter materials on temperature, pH, and broiler chicken performance. The study used 175-day-old chickens (DOC) that were divided into 5 treatments consisting of 7 chickens each with 5 replication. The data were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), followed by Duncan's Multiple Range Test (DMRT). The results showed that the treatment consisted of levels of 25%, 50%, 75%, 100% of lemongrass distillation waste and 100% of rice husk does not have a significant effect on temperature, pH, feed consumption, and feed conversion ratio but have a significant effect (p