Study: Cutting nitrogen emissions with egg yolk antibodies

One of the environmental challenges that the poultry industry has faced is manure utilisation and/or disposal. A joint US/Canadian study looked at the potential of reducing poultry nitrogen emissions with specific uricase egg yolk feed grade antibodies By: WK Kim, PH Patterson, JC Rodriguez-Lecompte and SC Ricke Poultry manure and its nitrogenous compounds can be a potential pollutant causing eutrophication, nitrate or nitrite contamination of water, ammonia volatilisation, and acid depo