Livestock Business Opportunities Alabio

Livestock business opportunities Alabio seberannya been done a long time in South Kalimantan, Indonesia precisely is the main business community and especially in the District Upper North River. Duck raising could provide an adequate contribution to family income. Ownership scale varies between 200-7000 animals per farmer. Alabio cattle business has now led to the specialization of business is the production of hatching eggs, egg consumption, hatching, and rearing. 

Development of livestock business opportunities because prospective Alabio supported by the availability of seeds and markets, farmers of adequate skills, socio-culturally accepted, and local government support. Problems in breeding Alabio is the absence of standardization of seed, the quality of males decreased, production records is not optimal, high price of feed, availability of local feed ingredients depending season, and post harvest handling and disease that have not been adequate. Alabio population in South Kalimantan in 2006 recorded 3,487,002 tail (South Kalimantan Provincial Animal Husbandry 2006). Maintenance Alabio have a bright prospect in line with increasing population and increasing public awareness of the consumption of animal protein from cattle. 

Performance of egg production Alabio includes 220,250 grain / head / year, peak production by 92.70%, egg weight 59, 65 g / grain, feed consumption 155. 190 g / head / day, hatchability of 79.49%, the 0.75% mortality after hatching, female body weight age of 6 months of 1.60 kg and 1.75 kg male. Alabio cattle business opportunity is quite promising because it has a higher egg production capacity. This is probably due to the availability of food resources in the swamps of fish small fish, algae and other forage and other animals. Duck egg production is maintained with Lanting system reaches 60.90% during the period of laying eggs, or flat-rata70%. While traditionally maintained its production only 130 grains / head / year. Maintenance Alabio quite diverse, depending on the habits and natural conditions. duck maintenance done intensively and semi-intensive to scale maintenance every peasant farmer 500-5000 tail. Laying opportunities can be generally grouped into three, namely small scale, ducks are kept less than 500 fish with traditional maintenance system or disposed of on land or swamp rice fields, the scale is the number of ducks that are kept 500-5000 birds per breeder, and scale large number of ducks that are kept more than 5,000 animals per farmer with system maintenance intensive. However, there are also breeders who maintain Alabio semi-intensive, with the scale usaha25-200 head / head of the family. Ducks diumbar or removed and given additional food shrimp shells, trash fish or crab to improve the quality of egg yolk color. Maintenance Alabio male for the purpose of producing prime quality meat should be done until the age of 12 weeks. Alabio as broiler males reared at the age of 12 weeks had a higher body weight than the ducks Bali and dry, but slightly lower than the duck legs chambell. Postharvest processing of duck meat and eggs is one way to increase value added in an effort to boost revenue and community nutrition. Some form of processed products from ducks are jerky, shredded, sausage, and meatballs. 

The problems encountered in the processing of duck meat is less tender meat and the packaging is not good, so the product can not survive long. The quality is not good duck jerky and some even smell a little less fresh or rancid smell, so is less preferred by consumers. Eggs are usually preserved into salted eggs, but the quality is still diverse, especially the yellow color of egg. 

Most people tend to consume South Kalimantan duck egg yolk is more red color, or the local people call it "egg farms". Such eggs produced from ducks that are kept in a way be herded. Some diseases are salmonelosis Alabio, kolibasilosis, cengesan or cold, aflatoksikosis, and aspergillosis. Istiana (1994) has managed to isolate Salmonella sp. amounted to 27.30% of the sample Alabio embryonated eggs die. However, Salmonella was isolated from samples of ducklings, eggs, bran and feed Alabio sold in the market.