Pustaka Ilmiah Universitas Padjadjaran

Transportation over long distances is a significant cause of stress in animal. Under these circumstances, animal usually manifest depression and the impact on physiological condition change and loss of body weight. The objective of the research were to examine effect supplementation of organic-Cr type into beef cattle diet on animal experienced transportation stress on physiology condition, hematological and change oi body weight. The experiment is conducted on 16 beef cattle transported by truck for 300 km distan ce from Malangbong to Tangerang. The experiment was arranged by Completely Randomized Design for four treatments and fou replications. The treatments were R0 l= basal diet), R1 (= R0+3ppm organic-Cr resulted from alkali hydrolysis), R2 (= R0+3 ppm organic-Cr resulted from bioprocess), R3 (= R0+3 ppm organic-Cr resulted from bioremediation). The result indicated that the type of organic-Cr supplementation given at 3 ppm in diet was not influence physiological condition, hematologic and body weight at beef cattle transported for seven hours. There is indication that beef cattle given control diet (containing no Cr) showed symptom of stress as marked by bigger loss of body weight (5.41%) compared to beef cattle given diet contains organic-Cr (3.7Z%; 5.04%; and 4.83%), respectively.