The Performance and Feed Cost per Gain of Rabbit Fed Copra Meal Replacement with Fermented of Palm Oil Waste Duta Setiawan Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University Tanjungpura Keywords: Fermented palm oil waste, copra meal, local male rabbit, performance Abstract: The aim of this research was to Determine the effect of substitution of copra meal (CM) with fermented palm oil waste (FPW) in the ration on the performance and feed cost per gain of local male rabbit. This research have been teaching farm Faculty of Agriculture, University Tanjongpura and Animal Nutrition Laboratory, Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinery West Kalimantan Government. It executed during 8 weeks, and used 16 rabbits. This research used Completely Randomized Design one-way classification with four treatments (P0, P1, P2, P3), and four replications and each contains one local male rabbit. The treatment given is in the farm of substitution CM with FPW, namely that: P0 = 60% Field Grass (FG) + 40% concentrate (15% CM + 0% FPW); P1 = 60% FG + 40% concentrate (10% CM + 5% FPW); P2 = 60% FG + 40% concentrate (5% CM + 10% FPW) and P3 = 60% FG + 40% concentrate (0% CM + 15% FPW). Taken Parameters were average daily gain, feed consumption, feed convertion and feed cost per gain. The result of this research were, average daily gain of 6.87 to 7.31 g / day, feed consumption from 36.64 to 42.36 g / day, feed conversion from 5.42 to 5.79, while at 15% from total ration of substitution (P3), it could depressed feed cost per gain value on Rp 7909, 90. The result of this research indicate that the substitution of copra meal with FS up to 100% (15% from the total ration) have no significant effect on the performance of local male rabbit, but at 15% from total ration of substitution (P3) it can depress feed cost per gain value. 1 INTRODUCTION The rabbit is one of the animals that became a trend favorite food of Indonesian society after a avian influenza poultry industry. Rabbits produce meat that has a value of quality animal proteins that can be used as an alternative in the nutrition community. Increase animal protein needs in the community, this is in line with the increase in population. Increased need need to look for solutions through increased livestock production, diversification of products and the search for new sources of animal protein. Rabbits are one of the essential commodities that can produce high-quality meat with a high content of animal protein as well. Rabbit meat has a protein content of ± 20%, it feels good, it is not forbidden religion, and low fat content. Moreover, it can be developed in the form of large-scale commercial enterprise. Cholesterol content is also low at 1.39 mg / kg (Sudaryanto, 2007). Rabbits also has some other advantages that do not require large areas in maintenance, can take advantage of the feed material of various types of forage, kitchen waste and byproducts of agricultural products and byproducts (leather / fur, head, feet, tail and their droppings) can be utilized for various purposes, production costs are relatively inexpensive, do not require large amounts of capital, maintenance is easy and can give birth to a child 4-6 times annually and produce any birth children 4-12 (Damron, 2006). According Gidenne et al (2010), rabbit including livestock species pseudoruminant, are herbivores that can not properly digest fiber. Fermentation occurs only in the cecum which is 50% of the capacity of the digestive tract. Still according Sarwono (2002) despite having cecum, a large rabbits are not able to digest the organic matter and crude fiber of total forage that can be digested by ruminants pure. The digestibility of forage rabbits consume only 10%. Commercial feed for rabbits on the market are relatively expensive so we need an alternative to looking for food that is available continuously, cheap, easy to obtain, possess enough nutritional value and do not damage the health of livestock. Copra meal as one of the authors concentrate the feed material source of protein in the ration. Has some drawbacks 64 Setiawan, D. The Performance and Feed Cost per Gain of Rabbit Fed Copra Meal Replacement with Fermented of Palm Oil Waste. DOI: 10.5220/0010038300640068 In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Computer, Environment, Agriculture, Social Science, Health Science, Engineering and Technology (ICEST 2018), pages 64-68 ISBN: 978-989-758-496-1 Copyright c  2021 by SCITEPRESS – Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved