The effect of fermented soybean meal on the growth of Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus Auratus)

The present study is to determine the effect of fermented soybean meal towards growth of Syrian Hamster, Mesocricetus auratus. Fermented soybean meal had been introduced and famous in aquaculture feeding and swine feed in replacing fish meal. Use of fermented feed is to increase the animal digestibility. This study was carried out in eight weeks period. It is focusing on three different treatments which the hamsters were fed with fermented soybean meal, non fermented soybean meal and commercial feed were set up. Nine hamster were used in total with no replication. The parameter taken in this study is the animal growth and its survival rate. One Way Anova (P<0.05) used to determine the result and significance of this experiment. The results show that the fermented soybean meal had the lowest growth of hamster compared to other two treatments. It shows no significance in this study. The result of this study is different from previous study which shows that feed with fermented is better. Weight gain of hamster in fermented soybean meal treatment is 6.05g, while in SBM and Control are 18.98g and 18.75g respectively. Least preference of hamster towards fermented soybean meal is due to its strong odour which molasses was used to make the feed. Thus indicates behaviour character of the hamster in feed
preference. The survival rate is 100% for control, while 66.67% in both FSBM and SBM. Nutritional analysis also done in this study which shows that percentage value of SBM in crude protein, ash and crude fat is higher that FSBM which the value are 35.8%, 5.31% and 1.63% respectively. Later research could be done on fermented feed with different formulated.