Feeding olive by-products may improve fat quality of meat and milk from ruminants
Published:April 29, 2009
Summary
Inclusion of olive by-products in goat and sheep diets could result in a more favourable fat profile of meat and milk from these animals, concludes a new review published in the journal Animal Feed Science and Technology.
The authors from Spain and Wales defined three main categories of olive by-products: 1) olive leaves, which actually refers to a mixture of leaves and branches, 2) ...
This is good finding to use by products of olive for the purpose of meeting cheap & economical sources of feeding milking and meat animals.
But this is viable only in the countries where olive production is at peak.
In countries like Pakistan where olive production is nill this information can serve academic purpose so that our HR involved in animal production may know that such by products can be used for this purpose also and they will start thinking what other industrial by products can be used in Pakistan which at the moment are neglected but available in plenty.