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| FPP's Podcast-Organic Herbal Medicine for Healthy Livestock on the Youtube channel of Pertanian Peternakan UMM |
After the success of previous podcast, FPP hold again this activity in early 2021. The theme of this podcast is “Organic Herbal Medicine for Healthy Livestock”. For the first time, this podcast is held in the FPP multimedia room. The intervieweesis a lecturer at the Animal Husbandry Study Program, FPP, namely Prof. Dr. Ir. Wahyu Widodo, MS moderated by Rista Anggriani, STP.MP.MSc. He is a researcher and developer of organic herbal medicine for poultry.
The reason the theme of organic herbal medicine for poultry was chosen because of concerns about the use of drugs in chicken farms. The increasing of antibiotics and growth hormone has impacts both on chickens and in humans who consume the chicken meat. Eventhough, the need for protein consumption from poultry is quite high. "Thus, I along with 3 other lecturers did research on organic herbal medicine for chickens as a substitute product for drugs," said Wahyu.
There are three types of organic herbal medicine developed by the FPP Professor and his team. The three types of herbal medicine (called Jamu) are Productive Jamu, “Greedy”Jamu, and Healthy Jamu. The three herbs have their respective roles. "Productive herbal medicine is intended to increase productivity in broilers. While greedy herbal medicine is to increase the appetite of chickens so that it becomes naturally fat, while herbal medicine is healthy to prevent intestinal worms in chickens, "said Wahyu. During podcast, there were participants who asked if there were any side effects from using these herbs. Wahyu explained that the raw materials for this organic herbal medicine derivedfrom natural ingredients such as turmericand garlic.
In addition to developing organic herbal medicine, this Animal Husbandry lecturer also likes to cross breed free-range chickens and laying hens. Through this crossing, he hopes that willbesuper varieties of native chicken. His interest in native chickens is reasonable. “Public fanaticism towards the consumption of native chickens is quite high, supported by the high selling value of native chickens compared to purebred chickens. It is time for us to consume free-range chicken as a part of loving Indonesian native products,”he said. (RAN/hum)
