Pasteurizing Nursery Feed Diets Improves Pigs’ Growth
By Kansas State University - Researchers have discovered that sterilizing portions of newly-weaned pig’s diets can lead to large improvements in the animals’ growth. The researchers are using electronic pasteurization – or, irradiation – to kill naturally-occurring bacteria in spray-dried blood meal and animal plasma. K-State researchers initially studied use of blood meal and animal plasma – two highly-digestible, growth-promoting ingredients – in the 1990s.
1 March 2001
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