Long Term Objectives:

1. Reduce the potential animal waste stream into the environment.

2. Further delineate recycle pathways for poultry by-products.

3. Develop alternative feed ingredients for the animal agriculture industry.

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Short Term Objectives:

1. Develop a method to separate turkey litter into fractions according to particle size and nutrient content.

2. Develop alternative fermentation systems for handling and recycling of on-farm mortalities determine animal performance when fed diets containing fermented and extruded poultry mortalities.

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Accomplishments

1. Sources of turkey litter have been identified, sampled, and screened and samples analyzed, statistical analysis pending.

2. Poultry mortalities have been fermented and extruded to form new feed ingredients.

3. These new feed ingredients have been successful fed to chicks and poults up to three weeks of age.

These accomplishments have identified new potential uses of poultry mortalities. As these uses are expanded, there is potential to reduce the amount of poultry mortality disposed of in mortality pits or applied to land after composting.

Future work will be directed to further explore of the use of fermented and extruded poultry mortalities in feeds for various livestock species. Additional work is needed to ascertain the possibility of separating turkey litter into nutrient based fractions.

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