Abstract
Fungi can cause contamination in animal feed. Contamination of the feed may result
in damage to feed quality and decrease the health of livestock. The aim of this study
was to isolate and identify fungi strains in cage- and warehouse-based chicken feed.
Fungal isolates was collected using the dilution plating method. A sample was taken
from the cage and feed in Tegal village, Bogor, West Java. The numbers of sample
taken were 10 g of each plot. The isolation, identification and characterization of
mold, was based on its phenotype macroscopic and microscopic. Forty-six molds [7
sourced from cages (15.21%) and 39 from warehouses (84.78%)] were isolated from
10 samples of the cage and warehouse-based chicken feed. The selection of
representative mold isolates amounted to 22 isolates, consisting of four mold isolates
from cages and 18 isolates from the warehouse. Six genera were identified, based on
their morphological characteristics: Aspergillus (3 isolates), Penicillium (8 isolates),
Fusarium (3 isolates), Trichoderma (3 isolates), Cladosporium (1 isolate),
Paecilomyces (2 isolates) and Mycelia sterilia (2 isolates). The highest occurrence of
mold isolates in chicken feed was Penicillium (36.36%), and the lowest of it was
Cladosporium (4.54%). The findings are in line with the information about
occurrence fungi in the chicken feed of poultry. These results showed that a potential
exists for fungi contamination in chicken feed can be found at cage- and warehouse
poultry feeds. Occurrence of fungi gives information to farmers to prevent a health of
their livestock from excessively contaminated fungi genera Penicillium. Controlling
as prevented by early detection or visual inspection and good management is a better
choice compared to curing.
Dalia Sukmawati, Nur Saidah, Tri Handayani, Sri Rahayu. (2018) The characteristics of fungi contaminating chicken feed in Tegal, Bogor, West Java, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology, Volume 6, Issue 4.
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