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Feather Meal

Characteristics:

  • consists of hydrolized, dried, ground clean feathers from slaughtered poultry
  • almost totally protein
  • otherwise low in nutritional value
  • used for mature ruminants but rarely exceed 5% of the ration for non-ruminants
  • fed to non-ruminants as a source of bypass protein
  • palatability is commonly a problem