Judul: Water Filter Application with Zeolit Composite Material in Laying Hens Farm Towards The Egg Quality
Abstrak: Ayam petelur merupakan ternak unggas yang sangat potensial diberbagai belahan dunia. Ayam ras ini di budidayakan khusus untuk menghasilkan telur konsumsi dalam produksi yang besar secara komersil diseluruh dunia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis sifat fisik, kimia dan mikrobiologi aplikasi filter air antibakteri berbahan komposit zeolit pada ayam petelur. Penelitian ini menggunakan Rancangan Acak Lengkap (RAL) pola Faktorial dengan 2 faktor dan 3 ulangan untuk kualitas telur. Faktor A adalah treatment zeolit dan faktor B adalah hari pengambilan telur setelah filter. Jika perlakuan menunjukan perbedaan nyata dilanjutkan dengan uji lanjut Beda Nyata Terkecil (BNT) dan kualitas kimia telur dan mikrobiologi telur diuji dengan menggunakan analisis uji t (Paired Sampel). Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa terdapat interaksi nyata antara treatment zeolit dan hari pengambilan telur setelah pemasangan filter dalam menaikan nilai panjang telur, lebar telur, bobot kerabang, tebal kerabang dan haugh unit. Selanjutnya, kualitas kimiawi telur dengan perlakuan zeolite saja pada hari ke-3 berpengaruh nyata (P<0.05) terhadap kadar bahan kering dan lemak telur. Kualitas mikrobiologi telur juga menunjukan bahwa perlakuan zeolit menurunkan nilai TPC dan efektif membunuh bakteri Escherichia coli dan Salmonella sp. Di simpulkan bahwa penerapan filter zeolit pada air minum ayam petelur dapat meningkatkan kualitas fisik, menjaga kualitas kimia dan efektif sebagai antibakterial terhadap populasi bakteri, bakteri Escherichia coli dan Salmonella sp pada telur., Laying hens are potential poultry livestock in various parts of the world. This breed of chicken is specially cultivated to produce egg consumption in large commercial production throughout the world. This study aimed to analyze the physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of applying an antibacterial water filter made from zeolite composites in laying hens. This study used a completely randomized design (CRD) with a factorial pattern with 2 factors and 3 replications for egg quality. Factor A is the zeolite treatment, and factor B is the day of egg collection after being filtered. If the measures show a significant difference, it is continued with the Least Significant Difference (LSD) test, and the chemical quality of the eggs and the microbiology of the eggs are tested using the t-test analysis (Paired Samples). The results showed that there was a significant interaction between the zeolite treatment and the day after the filter was installed after the eggs were collected. This increases the value of egg length, egg width, shell weight, shell thickness, and haugh units. Furthermore, the chemical quality of eggs treated with zeolite alone on day 3 had a significant effect (P<0.05) on the dry matter and egg fat content. The microbiological quality of the eggs also showed that the zeolite treatment reduced the TPC value and effectively killed Escherichia coli and Salmonella sp. It was concluded that the application of zeolite filters to the drinking water of laying hens could improve physical quality, maintain chemical quality, and is effective as an antibacterial against bacterial populations, Escherichia coli and Salmonella sp bacteria in eggs.
Keyword: laying hens, zeolit filter, physicochemical quality, microbiological quality