
Dr. Mallory Embree: Optimizing Animal Microbiomes
Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta
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The Effect of the Environment on Bird Health
The microbes that we tend to look at for birds that are already very efficient, are ones that help basically make the existing microbium a lot more resiliant. So even though those animals have really good feed efficiencies, they generally don't achieve those numbers in the real world. It turns out that the environment has an impact on performance as well. Some people say it's up to 50 %.
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