Improvement of Water Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) Quality as Animal Feed through Fermentation Using Rumen Microbes with the Addition of Molasses

One of the potential alternative feed ingredients as animal is water hyacinth. However, low quality and palatability cause hyacinth not being liked by ruminants. way to improve using controlled technology involving rumen microbes. The purpose study was determine level addition molasses fermentation time in improving microbes through test parameters for crude protein fiber content. This used a completely randomized design (CRD) with factorial patterns levels, namely M1 = 5%, M2 10%, M3 15%, consisting T1 7 days, T2 10 T3 13 days . Each experimental repeated 3 times form 27 units. Data were analyzed variance, if there significant treatment effect (P<0.05), followed HSD on average treatment. results showed that highest content 14.23% M2T3 (10% time) (P<0.05) while lowest 14.55% M3T2 (15% dangerous days). significantly different from other treatments. concluded 10% brewing could increase fermented rumen-filled microbes.and decrease at 15% fermentation.