Karakteristik Morfologi Ukuran Tubuh Kerbau Murrah dan Kerbau Rawa di BPTU Babi dan Kerbau Siborongborong

Abstract

GERLI, 2013: " Morphological Characteristics of Body Size of Murrah Bufallo and Swamp Bufallo in BPTU Pig ang Bufallo Siborongborong", supervised by HAMDAN and ARMYN HAKIM DAULAY. Due to limitations in informations and data of production performances, their productions have not yet been developed to its potentials. One way to determine the phenotypic diversity of buffaloes is with morphometric observations on each type of buffalo in Indonesia. Morphometric identification can be done by comparing the size and shape of the body. This study aimed to obtain information related phenotypic morphometric characters body Murrah buffalo and swamp buffalo by Principal Component Analysis. The study involved 68 swamp buffalo (7 males, 61 females) and 32 Murrah buffaloes (5 males, 27 females) in July September 2012 used a survey method. Identifier the size of the breeds are shoulder height and chest width as the identifier form. The crowd data on Murrah buffalo and swamp buffalo are mutually exclusive, which means that the diversity of different morphometric breeds buffalo.