PERTAMBAHAN BERAT BADAN DAN PERKEMBANGAN OVARIUM DOMBA BETINA SETELAH PEMBERIAN KONSENTRAT KULIT PISANG (Musa spp)

Banana peel is a waste product of banana which contains adequate nutrition and can be used as sheep feed. This study aimed to find out the condition of sheep body weight gain and ovary development after being fed with banana peels concentrate and compare it to the sheep group which is fed with commercial concentrate. . Twelve female growing sheep were randomly divided into 4 groups of 3 ewes. The groups were K (control) = being fed with pollard concentrate and bran, P1 = being fed 10% banana peels concentrate, 90% pollard concentrate and bran, P2 = being fed 30% banana peels concentrate, 70% pollard concentrate and bran, and P3 = being fed 50% banana peels concentrate, 50% pollard concentrate and bran. This research had been done for four weeks. Weighing every once a week to measure the weight gain every week. During this week, USG was used to measure the ovary size and development. Body weight data were tabulated and used to determine the average weight differences from the first week and last week during the experiment. The results indicated that adding banana peels concentrate to ewe in group P1, P2, and P3 had increased the body weight for each group (P1=2,13 k