BUDIDAYA AYAM KAMPUNG UNGGUL BERBASIS PAKAN LOKAL

Laikit Village, located in Dimembe Subdistrict, North Minahasa Regency is one ofthe villages that has a strategic position because it is flanked by three urban areas namely Manado, Airmadidi and Likupang. The potential of agricultural food crops and people's livestock should make Laikit a developed and self-sufficient village especially animal food such as free-range chicken. The free-range chicken farming in general is still carried out traditionally, even though local biological resources are available which can be formulated as local feed ingredients. As a result, very low productivity and easy inbreeding occur causing a decrease in the genetic quality of local free-range chickens. As a solution to these problems, a program called Diseminasi Produk Teknologi kepada Masyarakat (DPTM) has been carried out, aimed at applying knowledge and technology as well as cultivation skills of superior free-range chicken based on local feed to increase productivity, which in turn can increase economic income of society. The methods of this program use a combination of “science application” and “appropriate technology” with adult learning approach (Andragogics), so as to facilitate the creation of mechanisms, procedures and conditions that support the process of independent learning, as well as creating active participation and collaboration between the community and community service providers. Through this activity, it has been facilitated the efforts to increase knowledge and technology, as well as the business skills of free-range chicken farming by utilizing locally bioresources feeds with an achievement of 87 percent. The results were also achieved that the use of local bioresource-based feeds could increase the growth of free-range chickens which were not significantlydifferent from the use of factory feed.